In the novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Warrender House (previously known as the Priory) is the home of Sir Philip Starke in Sutton Chancellor. The current name of the house comes from The Warrender family, the earlier owners of the house. Sir Phillip is the widower of Julia Warrender.
Originally the house had been a fourteenth century priory. It was replaced by an ugly, but comfortable, Victorian house.