Homes Used As TV & Movie Locations

Why should the ChimniWiki care about TV locations? Television provides an insight into the living homes that we care about. Period TV in particular helps us understand how these houses and flats were originally used.

Featured TV Series

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  Homes used in the ITV adaptation of Poirot with David Suchet

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  Homes used in the 2014 BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall'

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  Homes used in the 2015 BBC1 adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'Partners In Crime'

Featured Movies

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  Houses Used In Harry Potter

Individual Houses In TV

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  23 Gloucester Crescent, London owned by playwright Alan Bennett and used as the actual location for filming 'The Lady In The Van'

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  Carleton Road, London N7 is the House used for the iconic TV series ‘Spaced’ which introduced ‘Simon Pegg’.

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  Shipley Mill Sussex. The fictional windmill home of TV crime solving magician Jonathan Creek

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  Buss Farm used in the Darling Buds of May

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  ‘Beautified Hairdressers’ Balby, Doncaster. Used as the exterior of Arkwrights Grocers in ‘Open All Hours’.

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  Glanquin Farmhouse, Clare, Ireland used for the exterior shots of the Craggy Island parochial house in Father Ted.

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  The cottage used as Doc Martin’s house in fictional Portwen (actually Port Isaac, Cornwall).

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  ‘Summer Residence’, 1969-70 by Alexandros Tombazis at Kinetta, Greece. Featured in the BBC adaptation of Le Carré’s ‘Little Drummer Girl’.

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  Archie the Inventor’s pink house featured in a popular noughties children’s TV show ‘Balamory’. In real life, Fenton Tower, East Lothian

Individual Houses in Movies

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  110 Longfellow Avenue, Staten Island, New York. The mansion where the Godfather hosts his granddaughter’s wedding.

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  1-5 Ave de Calanques, Cassis was used as Alain Charnier's house In the French Connection

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  1960s John Lautner-designed Elrod House in Palm Springs, California, USA which appeared as ‘Willard White’s house in Diamonds Are Forever’.

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  The Sculptured House, Colorado mountainside, by Charles Deaton 1966 used in Woody Allen’s Sleeper.

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  The 1950s A. James Speyer and David Haid-designed house in Highland Park, Illinois, USA used as ‘Cameron’s House’ (with additional Ferrari) in Ferris Bueller‘s Day Off.

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  ‘Norney Grange‘ designed by Charles Voysey in 1897 was used to represent the house of Edith Pretty at Sutton Hoo in the Netflix film They Dig’.

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  House in St Lukes Mews, London W11 used in Love Actually.

Fictional Homes

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  Mrs Wilberforce’s House from the 1955 film The Lady Killers. This was a fake house built on an empty plot on a real street - Frederica Street, Islington in London.

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  The Simpsons family residence at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the fictional suburb Springfield, in a never named US state.

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  The Smith family residence from 'American Dad' on Cherry Street, in the fictional suburb of Langley Falls, Virginia.

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  The Lars Homestead on planet Tatooine where Luke Skywalker grew up. The surface level dome house was a set constructed for the movie at Nefta, Tunisia while the courtyard pit was a real hotel, the Hôtel Sidi Driss in Tunisia, 250 miles away in Malmaison.

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  Disney's 'Bear In The Big Blue House'

See Also In Chimni

ChimniWiki Houses Used In Wolf Hall

ChimniWiki Homes Used In Poirot Episodes

ChimniWiki Homes On C4’s Grand Designs

Other Interesting Web Sites

At Chimni, our interest is mainly in the houses and flats used in TV and Movies and there are some wonderful blogs and websites covering locations in general, and the styles and designs of set and clothes. We would particularly recommend the following:

TV Locations http://www.tvlocations.net/poirotlocationindex.htm

Investigating Poirot http://investigatingpoirot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/apartment-in-text-and-on-screen.html

London Footprints- Art Deco http://www.london-footprints.co.uk/artdecobldgs.htm

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