Keep at this Seventeenth-century farmhouse featured in ‘Hamnet’

Whether or not you’ve already shed a tear (or two) at Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet or are but to see the Oscar-tipped drama, now you can keep in one of many hauntingly lovely areas featured. Cwmmau Farmhouse, a Seventeenth-century Jacobean property set deep within the Herefordshire countryside, stars as Hewlands – the childhood residence of Agnes, Shakespeare’s spouse – in Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel, which explores the love and loss that led to Shakespeare’s seminal play, Hamlet.

Keep at Cwmmau Farmhouse, Herefordshire, as seen in Hamnet

The farmhouse, owned by the Nationwide Belief, sits in a secluded slice of the Welsh Marches, surrounded by meadows, woodland and views of the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) on a transparent day. Constructed within the early 1600s as a looking lodge earlier than changing into a working farmhouse, it stays remarkably intact: oak beams, leaded home windows, and timeworn elm flooring hint 4 centuries of rural life. Inside, the preserved kitchen, with its bread ovens and stoves, stands alongside a sensitively up to date trendy counterpart.

Filmed in the course of the summer season of 2024, Hamnet additionally used the close by Tudor village of Weobley to recreate Stratford-upon-Avon. Manufacturing designer Fiona Crombie describes the shoot as ‘a strategy of uncovering and discovery’. The movie’s making left a tangible mark on Cwmmau Farmhouse: location charges funded important conservation work, whereas prop apple timber and timber fencing have been left behind to counterpoint the panorama. Right now, anybody can e-book a keep on this five-bedroom farmhouse for as much as ten individuals, with entry to close by Nationwide Belief websites together with The Weir Backyard.