Oakley Court
Oakley Court is an English country house in 1859 in neo-Gothic style in a hamlet in the town of Bray , Berkshire in Thames nearby was built. The property has an area of 14 hectares. Today it is a luxury hotel.
history
The property was built in 1859 for Sir Richard Hall Say . He was High Sheriff of Berkshire in 1864 and Justice of the Peace in 1865 .
In 1874 Oakley Court was sold to Lord Otho Fitzgerald (officer and politician of the Liberal Party , 1827-1882), then to John Lewis Phipps and in 1908 to Sir William Avery ( philatelist , 1854-1908). In 1919 Ernest Olivier (or Earnest Oliver ) bought the property together with 140,000 m² of forest land for 27,000 English pounds. He was an eccentric character who, in honor of diplomats who were his guests, had the respective flag hoisted on the flagpole that has been preserved to this day.
The property served as the English headquarters of the French Resistance during World War II . The future French President Charles de Gaulle is said to have stayed in one of the two bedrooms these days.
Location
Oakley Court had been used for various film shoots by the nearby Bray Studios since the 1960s . Among other things, parts of the hammer films , such as The Black Reptile (1966) and Nights of Horror (1966), were shot here. The country house was best known as Schloss Dr. Frank N Furters in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
Web links
- Royal Berkshire History: Oakley Court (Engl.)
- Oakley Court Hotel (Engl.)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 24 ″ N , 0 ° 40 ′ 21 ″ W.