Homes of famous people

Some houses are grand and some are modest but they all have an interesting history
and in the case of these have had a famous or infamous resident.

Edwardian terraced house in Wathen Road, Dorking, birthplace of Sir Laurence Olivier

Actor Laurence Olivier was born in this house
in 26 Wathen Road, Dorking. His father and grandfather were clerics in the local church

Hilltop- a 17th century house near Hawkshead , Cumbria where Beatrix Potter lived here where

Hilltop, a 17th-century house at Sawrey near Hawkshead, in Cumbria Cumbria was the home
of novelist Beatrix Potter who bought the house
and its 34-acre (14 ha) working farm in 906 as
her home away from London and her artistic retreat. She left the house to the National Trust.

Jane Austen lived in this house in the Hampshire village of Chawlton

A semidetached white painted mock Tudor urban house in Muswell Hill

Not all houses can boast a famous actor or author. This house in Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, London had a gruesome history and was home to serial killer Dennis Nilsen. He put parts of some of his corpses down the drain in this house

Detached timber framed house in Sussex where J.M.Barrie lived

Stonehill House in Sussex is described as the perfect timber framed house. It was once home to J.M.Barrie for 15 years after he had written Peter Pan.
Rock star Keith Emerson owned it between 1970's and 1980's

Terraced, red brick, Victorian house in Victoria Street, Nottingham where DG Lawrence lived

8A Victoria Street,Eastwood, Nottingham is the birthplace of DG Lawrence who was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter.

White faced Georgian building where Agatha Christie lived

Greenway Road, Galmpton, near Brixham, was the home in Devon of the author Agatha Christie. Greenway and its surroundings in their entirety or in parts are described in many of her novels

Semi detached 1930's style house in Menlo Avenue, Liverpool where John Lennon lived

251,Menlove Avenue, Liverpool is now a National Trust home where John Lennon of the Beatles lived during his youth from 1945 to 1963 The house belonged to Lennon's Aunt Mimi who took John in at the age of five, after his mother,was persuaded that it would be better for Mimi to take care of him.
Johns mother was run over by a car and killed in front of this house when John was 17. He remained there until mid-1963, when he was 22 years old.

Imposing Stone built house in Edinburgh home of Kenneth Grahame who wrote Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame who later wrote Wind
in the Willows was born in this house
in Castle Street, Edinburgh

Terraced house in Liverpool the home of Paul McCartney

20 Forthlin Road, South Liverpool is a National Trust property and the house in which Paul McCartney had lived for several years before he rose to fame with The Beatles.

The house was built by the local authority and the McCartney family moved into the house in 1955. The Trust markets the house as "the birthplace of the Beatles", since this is the place where The Beatles composed and rehearsed their earliest songs

Benjamin Franklin

In the heart of London, is Benjamin Franklin House nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775, Dr Benjamin Franklin – scientist, diplomat, philosopher, inventor, Founding Father of the United States and more – lived behind its doors. Built circa 1730, it is today a dynamic museum and educational facility.

Dr Samuel Johnson

Dr Johnso'ns house is a charming 300-year-old townhouse, nestled amongst a maze of courts and alleys in the historic City of London, The writer and wit, lived and worked here in the middle of the eighteenth century, compiling his great Dictionary of the English Language in the Garret.

Three story early Victorian house in Fernhead Road, London where Norman Wisdom lived here

9, Fernhead Road, London W.9 was the
birthplace of arguably Britains best known and most loved comedy actor and clown Norman Wisdom.

Terrace of early Victorian houses in Kenningotn Park, London was Charlie Chaplins home

287, Kennington Road, London SE11 was once home to Charlie Chaplin.
Destined to become the most well known and famous star of early cinema he lived in awful poverty here and at the age of seven was sent to a workhouse and then a paupers school when his mother was committed to an asylum.

White painted corner house in Southsea, Hampshire,where Peter Sellers was born

Actor, comedian and Goon Peter Sellers was born in this house in Castle Street, Southsea, Portsmouth. Sellers' parents were vaudeville entertainers, and at two days old, Sellers was carried onto the stage at King's Theatre,Southsea.

Apartments over shops in Brook Street, Mayfair, London was the home of George Frederick Handel and Jimmy Hendrix

Where would you expect to meet George Frederick Handel and Jimmy Hendrix side by side? In Brook Street Mayfair is the answer - Nos 23 and 25.. Twin blue plaques on the outside wall pay tribute to the extraordinary flatmates separated by two centuries.Handel lived there for almost 40 years and wrote the Messiah there and died in the first floor bedroom in 1759. Hendrix arguably the greatest rock guitarist lived there for two years from 1968 until his untimely death.

Sigmund Freud Museum

The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Austria following the Nazi annexation in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freud's study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.

John Keats

Keats House, or Wentworth Place as it was originally known, was built in 1814 by William Woods, a local builder and completed in 1816. Originally two separate houses, the larger side of the property was first occupied by Charles Wentworth Dilke and his family, while the smaller, eastern side was occupied by Charles Brown. It was to Brown’s side of the house that John Keats came to live in 1818, staying here for just 17 months before travelling to Italy where he died.

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