The real price of Britain’s most famous TV properties, from Downton Abbey to Del Boy’s flat
Mortgage experts from consumer group Which? have calculated the cost of 10 of the most famous fictional homes in the UK
FOR sale: Historic 11-bed manor with servant quarters and room for entertaining upper classes. Cost £72million.
The real worth of Downton Abbey, set in Yorkshire but filmed at Highclere, Berks, has been revealed by Which?
Mortgage experts valued an Only Fools and Horses flat in Peckham, South London, a Corrie-style crib in Salford, Dot Cotton’s EastEnders home, Sherlock’s pad at 221B Baker Street and Gavin & Stacey’s base in Barry, South Wales.
Here, we look at what the TV and filmland homes are now worth.
Only Fools & Horses
Absolutely Fabulous
EDINA was always keen to point out that her home in Holland Park Avenue was not in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
Today that postcode would cost you £4million.
Sherlock
SOLVING crime would have to pay handsomely for Holmes to afford his London flat at 221b Baker St – it is now worth £1.7million.
Birds of a Feather
TRACEY Stubbs’ detached home in the suburbs of Chigwell in Essex has shot up in value since the sitcom first aired in 1989 – from £210,000 to £1.5million.
The Good Life
THE Goods got their hands dirty through being self-sufficient.
And where there’s muck there’s brass – homes on Kewferry Road, Middlesex, can go for £1.2million.
Cold Feet
THE home of posh couple Karen and David in the upmarket Manchester suburb of Bowdon, worth £300,000 in 1999, would fetch £1.1million today.
EastEnders
TO live next door to Dot Cotton, in one of the large terraced houses in fictional London borough Walford – E20 – you would have to stump up around £875,000 today.
Till Death Us Do Part
THE Garnetts’ old Wapping Wall terrace in East London, was replaced by swish apartments in the Eighties, each is now worth £1m.
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Outnumbered
SUE and Pete Brockman are sitting on £900k worth of property in their home in Dempster Road, Wandsworth, South London.
Bridget Jones
BRIDGET’S central London flat in Bedale Street, above The Globe pub in Borough Market, has gone from £190k in 2001 to £650,000.
The Young Ones
THE student house in Codrington Road, Bristol rented by Neil, Vyvyan, Rick and Mike would be a stretch for them today. It’s worth £650k.
Peep Show
MARK and Jez’s man-pad in Croydon high-rise Apollo House is in a desirable commuter belt for London. A two-bed flat in the block is valued at £220,000.
Harry Potter
THE Dursleys’ home in Bracknell, Berks – where Harry Potter lived under the stairs – conjured up a magical £475,000 when it went on the market in September.
Last of the Summer Wine
WHILE Nora Batty’s stockings were falling down, the value of her cottage in picturesque, Holmfirth, West Yorks, was going up.
Last month it went for £169,950.
Coronation Street
THE fictional Rovers, where Fiz and Tyrone go drinking, is in Weatherfield – based on the city of Salford – and would cost £100,000 if it went on sale there.
Gavin & Stacey
STACEY’S mum Gwen lived in Trinity Street in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
A property there now fetches upward of £130,000. A tidy sum.
Bread
YOU would need far more dough to buy the Boswells’ terraced house in the Dingle, Liverpool, these days – it has gone from £28k to £70,000.