Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm. Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm.

Victor Meldrew’s house from One Foot in the Grave sells for £337,500

Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm.

Victor Meldrew’s house from One Foot in the Grave has sold for £337,500.

The three-bedroom terrace had been on the market for five months.

Millions of fans tuned in to see grumpy Victor being buried up to his neck and a naked man dangling from the gutter.

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Exterior scenes for the comedy were shot at the property in a residential street in Walkford, near Christchurch, in Dorset, in the 1990s.

Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm.
Inside Victor Meldrew’s house from One Foot in the Grave located in Walkford, Dorset. (Jam Press/Mitchells Estate Agents)

Estate agent Ben Jenkins said its history gave a “funny little slant” to the property sale.

It last sold in 2015 for £249,950 and was rented out by its previous owners.

It is being sold by Mitchells estate agents and advertised on Rightmove.

Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm.
Victor Meldrew played by Richard Wilson. (Jam Press)

A description of the property said: “A well presented, terraced house of about 920 sq ft offered for sale with vacant possession and a sunny back garden.

“The property has been well maintained with a modern kitchen/dining room leading to a UPVC conservatory extension and has a garage on a nearby block.

“Conveniently situated in the Highcliffe schools’ catchment area and close to the local shops and fields at Hinton, these houses have always been popular with younger buyers/families and investors.

Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm.
Inside Victor Meldrew’s house from One Foot in the Grave located in Walkford, Dorset. (Jam Press/Mitchells Estate Agents)

“This particular house has been rented successfully for a number of years and is ready to move in straight away.”

In one classic scene, Victor – played by Richard Wilson, now 89 – can be seen moaning about 263 garden gnomes in front of the house.

“He also finds a Citroen with a mattress inside dumped in his skip outside the house, as reported on Luxury Property News.

Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm.
Inside Victor Meldrew’s house from One Foot in the Grave located in Walkford, Dorset. (Jam Press/Mitchells Estate Agents)

The show ran for six series during the 1990s.

The house interior was not used for filming; those scenes were shot in a BBC studio.

Mr Jenkins, of Mitchells Estate Agents, added: “Being the house from the TV series was quite a thing back in the day… but now not so much.

Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm.
Inside Victor Meldrew’s house from One Foot in the Grave located in Walkford, Dorset. (Jam Press/Mitchells Estate Agents)

“But it does give it a funny little slant.”

Speaking in 2014, writer David Renwick explained that Tresillian Way was chosen because it fitted a storyline at the start of series two.

Victor Meldrew’s iconic One Foot in the Grave house has sold for £337,500 in Dorset, offering a piece of British TV history with modern comfort and timeless charm.
Inside Victor Meldrew’s house from One Foot in the Grave located in Walkford, Dorset. (Jam Press/Mitchells Estate Agents)

“In which the Meldrews came back from holiday to find their house demolished and a mix-up over a housewarming party followed.

He said: “Just for that one joke, we needed a set of houses which looked identical.

“But that was a lot tougher to find than it sounds.”

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