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Croft Manor - Movies
The manor from the most recent Tomb Raider games resembles the one seen in the films. The actual house featured in the movies is called Hatfield House located in Hertfordshire. In the movie, the house also has an observatory and a training room decorated as an ancient temple. The interior layout of Croft Manor's main hall was adapted for the Croft Manor in Legend, Anniversary and Underworld. However, Croft Manor's main hall is not a real room in Hatfield House.

Tomb Raider Legend
Croft Manor is one of the three estates Lara Croft inherits at the age of 18 after her father dies. In Legend, the manor is smaller than it is in Tomb Raider Anniversary. It has only 5 main rooms: the main hall, a gym, a pool house, Lara’s bedroom suite and the library, all of which are connected by long corridors. There are supposedly many other rooms in the manor, there are many locked doors placed throughout the manor, but none of these are accessible. There is no outdoors except for a tiny enclosed courtyard just before entering the gym.

Tomb Raider Anniversary
In Tomb Raider Anniversary, the manor is set around 10 years before Legend, the manor is partially under construction. The Pool house is full of scaffolding and the pool itself is drained of water. There are also a few large boxes in the main hall in place of Zip's office. Croft Manor now also has an outdoor playable area which includes a maze and a small garden. There are two extra rooms off the side of the main hall. The first is a trophy room which is exactly the same as the library but Alistair's desk is replaced with trophy cases. All the trophy's are artefacts collected from the game. The second Room is a music room which is a similar shape the the living area of Lara's bedroom. It includes a Harp, Piano and a stereo which you can play themes from all of the levels of the game. The large window on the staircase also changes.

Tomb Raider Underworld
There is no separate Croft Manor training level in Tomb Raider Underworld. The prologue is set in the burning remains of the manor after the vault is blown up by Lara's doppelgänger. In the prologue the only accessible rooms are the secret tunnel connecting the library to Lara's bedroom, Lara's bedroom (or what's left of it)and the main hall all of which are engulfed in flames. However, The level "Protected by the Dead" is set under Croft manor under the Crypt in a sort of secret Chapel which leads to Lord Richard Croft's secret study. From leaving the study the game continues from where the prologue starts.