One Foot in the Grave Christchurch house for sale

A suburban house that became familiar to millions of TV viewers as the house of Victor Meldrew in the sitcom One Foot in the Grave has gone on the market.

Exterior scenes for the show were shot outside the house in a residential street in Walkford, near Christchurch in Dorset, in the 1990s.

They included Victor being buried up his neck in the garden and a naked man dangling from the gutter.

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

One Foot in the Grave followed the frustrations and misfortunes of cantankerous pensioner Victor Meldrew, played by Richard Wilson and his long-suffering wife, Margaret, portrayed by Annette Crosbie.

The show ran for six series during the 1990s, as well as seven Christmas specials, with many scenes shot around Bournemouth and Christchurch.

Although the location is not referred to in the show, the Meldrews’ house in Tresillian Way was the location for many of its classic scenes involving the couple and their neighbours.

They included the machine-gunning of scores of garden gnomes in front of the house, and Victor discovering his car in a skip.

The house interior was not used for filming.

Described in the sales documentation as a “a well presented, terraced house of about 920 sq ft”, the house last sold in 2015 and has since been rented out by its current owners.

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

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

Speaking in 2014, writer David Renwick explained Tresillian Way was chosen because it fitted a storyline at the start of series two, in which the Meldrews came back from holiday to find their house demolished and a mix-up over a housewarming party followed.

“Just for that one joke, we needed a set of houses which looked identical – but that was a lot tougher to find that it sounds,” he said.