Mansion in TV drama

A historic category A listed building is be featured in a haunting drama broadcast on TV over the festive period.

Bannockburn House was used as one of the filming locations for the Channel 5 production called‘The Small Hand’to be screened on Boxing Day.

It is an adaptation of Susan Hill’s book‘The

Small Hand: A Ghost Story’.

The book will come to life as a two-hour drama, airing at 9pm. From the director of Poldark, Merlin and Atlantis, the show stars Shetland actor Douglas Henshall.

In the novel version, on returning from a visit to a client, antiquarian book dealer Adam Snow takes a wrong turn and comes across a derelict

Edwardian house. Overcome by curiosity he approaches the entrance and feels a small cold hand creeping into his own‘as if a child had taken hold of it’.

Then over the coming weeks he becomes subject to nightmares and panic attacks and further visits from the small hand. He vows to learn more about the house and its overgrown garden.

In focus Bannockburn House to feature in television drama