The drama of Arts and Crafts
THOSE of us who relied on Netflix to lift their spirits during the long dark evenings of lockdown were rewarded by the screening in January 2021 of The Dig, a haunting dramatisation of the 1939 excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial and its treasure in the grounds of the Sutton Hoo estate, Suffolk, starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan. For lovers of historic houses, however, the real star of The Dig was its ‘moody and magnificent’ location, Norney Grange at Shackleford, three miles from Godalming, Surrey, which doubled for Sutton Hoo House in the film.
An important, Grade II*-listed Arts-and-Crafts house built by the architect C. F. A. Voysey and set in 21 acres of landscaped gardens and woodland, (1995), (2007), (2009) and (2015).
