House with the blue door is up for sale

If I said that 280 Westbourne Park Road was up for sale it would probably mean nothing to you. If I said that the house with the blue door from Notting Hill was up for sale, you may get a teeny weenie bit excited.

So without further ado, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty.  The iconic house made famous by the highest grossing British film ever made, has just gone on the market for a stonking £2,500,000.

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If you think that this celebrated property still resembled the shabby and slightly chaotic house that was made famous in the film, you’d be strongly mistaken. Some snappy editing came into play, and the house that we all know belonging to foppish William Thacker (Hugh Grant) and his skinny Welsh flatmate Spike (Rhys Ifans) was actually filmed on a separate set.  Sneaky, eh?

Prospective buyers may be relieved to discover that instead of facing a filthy kitchen as they enter the famous threshold, they will actually be standing in a magnificent converted chapel. In the real world, (that’s the world where nice English boys don’t get to fall in love with Julia Roberts) the house boasts a 1,000 square foot reception room, a galleried mezzanine and a charming courtyard garden.

Back in the day, the house actually belonged to the film’s screen writer Richard Curtis and his lurvely wife Emma Freud. But shortly after filming, the godfather of British rom-coms, decided to cut his losses and leave, selling the house for a measly £1.3 million. Ouch!

Image credit: London Brick Work

When the new proprietors of the famous house were hounded by Japanese tourists tapping at their door with their Nikon cameras, they decided that the only way to get some peace and quiet was to sell the blue door at a charity auction.  A black replacement may have brought them some anonymity but we were hardly fooled!

Now they have left, our eyes are peeled as to who’s going to snap up this fabulous property. Who knows if they’re lucky some beautiful hollywood star may come knocking on their black (not blue) door.