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Country lifestyle photography is built around a sense of place. Open countryside, characterful interiors, generous kitchens, gardens, natural materials and views beyond the windows can all help create imagery that feels rooted in rural life.
SHOOTFACTORY represents a varied collection of country house locations across the UK, ranging from period houses and restored village homes to contemporary rural architecture and large family properties. These locations can work across fashion, interiors, food, homeware, family lifestyle, editorial photography, advertising and filming.
The country setting is only part of the picture. For many productions, the relationship between the house and its surroundings matters as much. Large windows overlooking fields, kitchens opening onto gardens, woodland, orchards, ponds, and terraces can let a shoot move naturally between interior and exterior scenes within one location.
No single country lifestyle look exists. A campaign may call for the grandeur of a Georgian house, the familiarity of a relaxed family kitchen or the cleaner architectural lines of a contemporary rural home.
Our UK location houses outside London provide productions with a broad mix of architectural periods, interior styles and landscapes. This makes it possible to match the setting closely to the creative direction rather than relying on a generic rural backdrop.
The following properties show the range available through SHOOTFACTORY.
Aston is a contemporary four-bedroom country house set within the rolling Buckinghamshire landscape, with expansive views across the Vale of Aylesbury.
The architecture combines brick and timber board cladding with concrete floors, exposed ceiling beams, vaulted roofs, and a striking double-height entrance. Full height glazing draws the countryside into the principal living spaces and provides strong natural light.
On the ground floor, an open-plan kitchen, dining and living area centres around a large bespoke kitchen island. A dual-aspect wood burner separates a rear snug, while the brick chimney and ceiling beams add texture and warmth.
Upstairs, the principal bedroom has a vaulted ceiling and a large window overlooking the surrounding countryside. The combination of modern architecture, family living spaces and open rural views makes Aston particularly suited to contemporary country lifestyle, interiors, fashion and homeware shoots.
Beaconsfield brings traditional country house proportions together with contemporary family living.
Set on approximately one acre just outside the M25, the house features high ceilings, oak floors, white walls, marble detailing and black panelled cabinetry. Crittall French doors and windows bring generous natural light into the main rooms.
The open-plan kitchen, living, and dining area opens onto a large courtyard and garden, giving productions an easy transition between interior and exterior scenes. Elsewhere, an impressive entrance hall with a six-metre ceiling, an open fireplace, a butler’s pantry, a playroom, a boot room, and several bedroom suites.
Outside, the property offers a 20 metre swimming pool, glasshouse, kitchen garden, estate fencing, firepit seating and a basketball court. The variety within one property provides plenty of scope for family lifestyle, fashion, interiors, food and commercial campaigns.
Its Buckinghamshire position also places it only 6.8 miles from Pinewood Studios and approximately 25 miles from Central London.
For a more traditional interpretation of country living, Belmont House is a substantial late Georgian, early Victorian detached house near Salisbury.
An impressive entrance opens into a large hall with exposed floorboards and period detailing. Aged walls and furnishings sympathetic to the property’s age give the interiors an established character that works particularly well when a production needs a genuine period country-house feel.
Large rooms and beautiful windows provide strong shooting spaces, with elevated views adding another layer to compositions looking beyond the interiors.
The grounds include pretty gardens and walled areas, offering further settings for fashion, editorial, period-inspired photography and filming. Belmont House is particularly useful for productions looking for grandeur without losing the lived-in quality of a country home.
Black Barn provides a very different country setting. This architect designed four bedroom house is secluded among fields and woodland in Kent.
The main open-plan kitchen, dining and sitting room features a dramatic double-height window overlooking a pond, with woodland forming the background beyond. This relationship between architecture, water and landscape creates strong opportunities for wider lifestyle compositions.
The house also includes a separate snug, principal bedroom with a corner window and three further double bedrooms.
Outside, productions have access to a concrete terrace, lawn, woodland and a deck beside the pond. The driveway also offers parking for at least seven cars, which can be useful for production teams.
For brands looking for a modern rural setting with clean architecture and immediate access to nature, Black Barn offers both within the same location.
Brook Lodge is a four-bedroom country property set within approximately an acre of gardens.
The restored interiors have a softer country aesthetic, combining neutral decoration with areas of bare plaster, encaustic tiled floors, exposed original floorboards and simple furnishings.
Its country kitchen is a particularly strong feature. Filled with natural light and centred around a moveable island, it provides a flexible setting for food, kitchenware, family lifestyle and interiors photography.
The gardens add considerably to the shooting possibilities. The property includes a lawn, paved terrace with climbing wisteria, herb beds, an orchard, and an old tennis court. These spaces can support anything from summer dining and gardening imagery to fashion and relaxed family scenes.
A long driveway provides parking for up to six cars, with additional parking available within the village where required.
Bosham combines large contemporary architecture with a landscaped country setting.
The silvered timber-clad eco house is cantilevered over a natural swimming pond and sits within approximately 1.5 acres surrounded by fields. Two main buildings are connected by a glazed walkway floating over the water, creating an unusual visual connection between the architecture and landscape.
Large areas of glazing bring natural light throughout the house. One of its most striking spaces is the triple-height atrium, where a three-storey chimney rises towards a skylight, and a bespoke double sweeping staircase sits within a timber-clad void.
Natural materials continue throughout the property, including Venetian plaster, timber and floating concrete shelves supporting the wood burners.
Outside are two dining areas, a garden cabin overlooking the water, a wood-fired hot tub and tennis court. Bosham is particularly well suited to architectural shoots, premium lifestyle campaigns, fashion, interiors and productions built around indoor and outdoor living.
Cheverells demonstrates the possibilities created by bringing historic architecture and modern design together.
The detached flint property is around 200 years old, covers more than 4,500 square feet and sits within approximately one acre of land. It has been extensively refurbished while retaining much of its original character.
At the rear, a large contemporary extension introduces expansive glazing, an aluminium canopy and a flint façade. The contrast between the older house and the modern addition gives the property two distinct architectural languages within the same building.
The kitchen, dining and day room have panoramic views across the surrounding Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This strong connection with the landscape makes Cheverells a useful choice for contemporary country living, architectural, interiors and lifestyle imagery.
Combe House offers a more intimate country lifestyle setting in north west Wiltshire.
The renovated Victorian house combines period detailing with carefully updated interiors. Engineered oak herringbone flooring runs through the hallway into the open-plan living space, complemented by high ceilings, decorative Victorian coving, wall panelling, and a limestone fireplace.
The large kitchen includes an island, dining area and snug, with Crittall folding doors opening onto an exterior courtyard. Tumbled limestone tiles continue from the kitchen outside, helping create a natural visual connection between the two spaces.
Upstairs, the principal bedroom includes a walk-in wardrobe and an en suite with double vanity, freestanding bath and marble shower. Further spaces include a nursery, office, additional bedrooms and bathroom.
Its mix of period features, modern family interiors and usable exterior space makes Combe House a strong option for homeware, family lifestyle, fashion and interiors shoots.
Country lifestyle imagery often relies on rooms that feel convincing rather than staged. Kitchens with working layouts, boot rooms, fireplaces, panelling, exposed floors and informal dining spaces can help products sit naturally within a scene.
The properties represented by SHOOTFACTORY cover several interpretations of this aesthetic. Brook Lodge offers a softer, restored country style; Belmont House provides established period interiors; while Aston and Black Barn take a more architectural approach to rural living.
This range is particularly useful for furniture, paint, flooring, kitchenware, food, textiles, and home accessory campaigns where the surrounding interior needs to support the product’s character.
A country house location,/a> can give fashion photography far more than an attractive interior. Gardens, woodland, terraces, driveways, fields, and architectural exteriors let a creative team build several distinct scenes without moving to another property.
A shoot might begin with natural window light indoors before moving into a garden, beside a pond or onto open ground. Period rooms can support more formal editorial styling, while modern glazed houses provide cleaner backgrounds for contemporary collections.
Seasonal campaigns can also benefit from these surroundings. Wisteria, orchards and outdoor dining spaces lend themselves to spring and summer imagery, while fireplaces, timber, stone and layered interiors can provide a richer setting for autumn and winter campaigns.
Country lifestyle can mean a Georgian manor, a restored Victorian home, a contemporary barn or a glass-filled architectural house overlooking open countryside. The right choice depends on the story the imagery needs to tell.
SHOOTFACTORY’s collection of country house shoot locations brings together properties with distinctive interiors, gardens, architectural features and rural surroundings across the UK.
If you are working to a particular creative brief, contact the SHOOTFACTORY location team. We can help identify properties suited to your production, from large country houses and family homes to contemporary rural locations for photography, television and filming.
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