Need a little more Spaced? Eight-bedroom north London home that featured in Simon Pegg’s cult TV show goes on sale for £3.75million
- Grade II-listed home in Tufnell Park had originally failed to sell at its starting price of £4million
- The north London property has become a tourist attraction for fans of Simon Pegg and the show, Spaced
- Eight-bed home is owned by costume designer whose frocks appeared in the Absolutely Fabulous movie
An eight-bed home from cult TV show Spaced, which starred Simon Pegg – is up for sale for someone who ironically wants ‘more space’.
The Grade II-listed home in Tufnell Park, north London, originally went on the market for £4million earlier this year, but failed to sell and is now on the market for £3.75million.
Pegg played the starring role in the hit show which ran for just two series from 1999 to 2001. Pegg played graphic artist Tim Bisley, who moved into a flat at the house with Daisy Steiner, played by Jessica Stevenson.
The property in north London’s Tufnell park area is on the market for £3.75million, after it failed to sell for £4million earlier this year
The show, directed by Edgar Wright – who went on to make Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver – also introduced the world to Pegg’s real life pal Nick Frost, who played bumbling Mike Watt.
In the show Tim and Daisy rented a flat from the permanently sozzled landlady Marsha Klein, played by Julia Deakin.
Tim and Daisy struggle throughout the show to make ends meet, with Tim working at a comic book store and Daisy taking on a series of jobs, of which she ultimately fails at. The two have to scramble together just £90 a week for the property, a far cry from the £3.75million the property is currently on the market for.
The house has become a popular tourist spot for fans of the hit show Spaced, which ran from 1999-2001 for just two series
In 2015, two of the buildings rooms were made available to tenants, with rent cost around £2,000 a month.
Estate agents at Century 21 have now been told to sell the eight-bed home in Carleton Road by its owner, costume designer Chris Winter, whose frocks appeared in the 2016 movie Absolutely Fabulous.
Winter, who has owned the home since 1993, has previously said that Spaced fans would often turn up at the home – built in 1867 – to pay tribute to their favourite show.
The Grade II- listed home has five floors and spans across 4,600 square feet and still has many of its period features
She said in 2015: ‘People come to visit from all over the world. If they don’t run off when they see us, which they sometimes do, they often say that they were choosing a holiday destination and they picked London so that they could visit the Spaced house.
‘I do think that’s a bit extreme but people really love it. There’s someone outside almost all the time, we get at least one visitor a day, and if we don’t then they make up for it at the weekend.’
The property is currently configured as a self-contained one/two bedroom flat replete with reception room, dining room or second bedroom opening onto a mature and secluded garden, as well as a fitted kitchen and bathroom.
She added: ‘You can spot a Spaced fan from a mile off. They’re often hipsters, a lot of them wear beanies, they might be skateboarders – they look very like the characters in the programme really.’
Sales manager at Century 21, Marc Pesci, told the Camden New Journal newspaper last week that there had been ‘a lot of interest’ in the property – especially from fans of the TV series.
He said: ‘The owner has said that people come from all over to see the property and you would like to think that somebody who loved the show and had the means would show an interest.
Aside from its eight bedrooms (one pictured above) the property also has a spacious loft and a dressing room
‘It’s our most prestigious family home currently on the market with us and is in one of the most sought-after locations in Tufnell Park.’
According to the estate agent’s blurb, the home is an ‘imposing property’ set across five floors.
It states: ‘Gothic splendour in the heart of Tufnell Park would be the most apt way to describe this quite magnificent eight-bedroom home set across five floors.
Set on the lower ground floor the flat is accessed from it’s own entrance at the side of the house. The house opens on the ground floor to two rooms which serve as the reception with original fireplace and textured period ceiling
‘This quite unique property was last on the market in 1993 and would make a wonderful home for a very lucky family.
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‘The property itself is currently configured as a self-contained one/two bedroom flat replete with reception room, dining room or second bedroom, a good sized fitted kitchen and bathroom.
‘Set on the lower ground floor the flat is accessed from it’s own entrance at the side of the house.’
The home has eight bathrooms, four bathrooms and three receptions rooms.
The home is a stones throw away from Tufnell Park station and is close to music venues such as Forum Kentish Town
The unique property is set in a residential area and the estate agent responsible for selling the property, 21 Century, said it would be a ‘wonderful home for a very lucky family’
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