Buy Cushing’s house of horror

WOULD you dare live in a house once owned by Peter Cushing, the Hammer Horror star who played Baron Frankenstein in six films and Doctor Van Helsing in five Dracula movies?

The two-bedroom property in Whitstable, Kent, where the actor lived for 25 years until his death in 1994, aged 81, has gone on the market for £1.4 million. The house bears a blue plaque dedicated to Cushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars. Such was his popularity in the town, there is even a local pub named after him.

I reported last year that fans were spitting blood because of the seafront house’s increasingly dilapidated state. But it has since been completely refurbished.