The Saltburn house

The decadent Catton family countryside manor is the Drayton House near Lowick in Northamptonshire.

Originally built around the 14th century, the house served as a grand residence for the Drayton family, showcasing impressive Elizabethan architecture characterized by symmetrical designs and ornate details.

Duncan, the creepy butler played by Paul Rhys, leads Oliver into the Great Hall, featuring a barrel ceiling inserted under the original medieval roof.

Until the filming of Saltburn, this private property has maintained an air of secrecy, shrouded in mystery and rarely opened, to the point that there are very few images of the interior in the public domain.

The library is the Long Gallery, occupying the top floor of the three-story Elizabethan wing.

Drayton has remained almost intact since it was refurbished between the late 17th and early 18th centuries when the Baroque facade was added.

However, as Architectural Digest reported, the filmmakers were allowed to use and modify several areas of this 127-room mansion for the story.

After seeing the spiral oak staircase, writer-director Emerald Fennell added the scenes that take place there to the script.

The movie was filmed in the interior courtyard, the square pond, the pool, the chapel, and one of the three dining rooms of this palatial manor.

The producers were looking for a house that hadn’t been used before, so Drayton was perfect for the film.

The maze in which the police gets lost was partially built in the house’s 200 acres of gardens.

The Minotaur statue was designed using Oliver’s body as the reference, and the rest of the labyrinth was made via CGI.

Oxford University

The first scenes at Oxford University were filmed outside the iconic Radcliffe Camera, perhaps the most iconic building at Oxford. This building was recently featured in Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka.

Next to this circular building is Brasenose College, one of the university’s oldest and most fashionable colleges, founded in 1509.

The dining hall scene where Oliver meets math genius Michael Gavey (played by Ewan Mitchell) was also filmed at Brasenose College.