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HarveyDarkey

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Sun Jun 30, 2013, 11:42 PM Jun 2013

Spooky house where Dracula and Rocky Horror Show were filmed goes on sale

The gothic country house film setting for Dracula and the Rocky Horror Picture Show is going on sale.

Oakley Court, which is currently used as a hotel, is being sold after the hotel business went into administration last week.

The property has 118 bedrooms, including 11 luxury suites, as well as substantial meeting and conference facilities



Included in the asking price - which has not yet been revealed - is a nine-hole golf course, set in more than 37 acres of landscaped gardens, leading onto a private stretch of the River Thames.

Built in 1859, Oakley Court was a private residence until its last domestic owner Ernest Olivier died in 1965.

While the house stood empty for the next 14 years it was regularly used as a film set for Hammer Horror films, because it was next to Bray studios.

As well as being used in the Dracula films, it was Frank N Furter’s castle in the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show.

In 1979 it underwent conversion to a hotel and opened its doors to the public two years later.

Recently the hotel hosted several members of Team GB during the London 2012 Olympic Games.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351551/Spooky-house-Dracula-Rocky-Horror-Show-filmed-goes-sale.html

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Spooky house where Dracula and Rocky Horror Show were filmed goes on sale (Original Post) HarveyDarkey Jun 2013 OP
Leeeett'ssss Doooooo The tonekat Jun 2013 #1
... pinboy3niner Jun 2013 #2
OK, Let's HarveyDarkey Jun 2013 #3
This is about the estate, not the movie. 7wo7rees Jul 2013 #4
"In the velvet blackness... Aristus Jul 2013 #5
. . . In_The_Wind Jul 2013 #7
I can't wait to put a bid in on this gem... pinboy3niner Jul 2013 #6
Be sure to take your mom. She'll find it comfy. Ikonoklast Jul 2013 #8
no showers, just baths. Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2013 #9
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