Present-day Montacute
During the last quarter of the 20th century, the gardens and grounds were restored and replanted. The house and village have often featured as locations for films. Several scenes of the 1995 film version of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility were filmed at Montacute, while it was used as Baskerville Hall for a version of The Hound of the Baskervilles filmed in 2000 for Canadian television. In 1975, London's National Portrait Gallery formed the first of its regional partnerships, a partnership which marries large antique, but empty, spaces with the many paintings the Gallery has insufficient space to display. This has seen Montacute's Long gallery redecorated and restored and hung with an important collection of 16th and 17th century old master portraits.
Each year, from March to October, the house and grounds are open to the public.
The new Wallace and Gromit short film for 2012 is set at Montacute House. The short was created in celebration of the National Trust and is titled "A Jubilee Bunt-A-Thon".
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