HALLOWED HOME OF POTTER’S PARENTS M

agical school Hogwarts was supposedly based somewhere in the Scottish Highlands, while JK Rowling penned her first blockbusting book in Edinburgh, so it’s a little surprising that Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is only now being translated into Gaelic.

Twenty years after the world was first introduced to the schoolboy wizard, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stane is being printed by small publishers Itchy Coo, and is the 80th translation of the first book in a series that has sold more than 450 million copies worldwide.

Harry Potter fans can be a dedicated bunch and many like to take photos of themselves in Potter-esque locations, such as outside this property, which is reckoned to have the second most photographed doorway in the UK, after 10 Downing Street. De Vere House – a Grade I listed, six-bedroom period home in the village of Lavenham, Suffolk – was used as the home of Lily and James Potter, Harry’s deceased parents in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film, where they fought in vain against Lord Voldemort.

In the movie, forming part of Godric’s Hollow, De Vere House can be seen opposite a fictional graveyard with a Christmas tree in the window.

Now on the market for £995,000, it oozes medieval charm with a massive timber frame, fireplaces, wall paintings and a rare stone spiral staircase with carved brick handrail.

The house has a reception hall, drawing room, sitting room, dining room and two kitchens, and garden with outdoor dining terrace. It’s currently split into two: a main fourbedroom house and a two-bedroom section used as a holiday let.

See carterjonas.co.uk or call 01787 844296 for more information.