Butlers Estate, RH2
Butlers Estate is a large country estate set in a quiet corner of Surrey with excellent connections to London.
True to an estate passed down through the generations, the landscape and buildings hold many a story to tell. From grand to petite, houses range from the rambling country man, through to a pair isolated cottages, each with their own character and setting on the land.
With over 2,000 acres of arable crops, grassland, a beef herd and woodland, two lakes, a and a practical network of roads and tracks, the estate is also crossed with a river and run out of two intert=rseting farm yards, each with a variety of ancient buildings. Modern agricultural barns and concredte yards also provide useful spaces as a film-friendly shoot location.
As well as the expected features of a large farm, there are also many unusual extras, including over 20 wartime pill boxes, wide river frontage, a original watermill and fishing lakes, the rare Japanese breed of cattle (Wagyu) as well as the extraordinary ancient manor house.
- Manor house (including interiors) and large established gardens, tennis court, kitchen garden, lime walk
- Period farmhouse, and a converted outbuilding
- Two separate isolated cottages, both currently unoccupied
- Traditional, old farmyard with a range of old barns. Next door to the manor house.
- Separate working farmyard with period farmhouse and modern cattle buildings, grain and storage sheds
- Cattle herd (Wagyu breed)
- Mill and lakes, a wide flowing river
- Acres of grass fields, arable fields and woodland
- Private tracks and roads across the farm
- Farm machinery and tractors
Getting to Butlers Estate
The estate is within a 1:30 drive of Central London, or take the train to Reigate in Surrey, and the farm location is just a 10-minute taxi ride from there.
Facilities on the Estate
Butlers’ offers a choice of outbuildings as crew bases, and has plenty of hard standing and stretches of private roads to accommodate large unit bases.