--- title: Harry Potter: 4 Privet Drive Is For Sale description: You could even sleep in the cupboard under the stairs canonical: https://time.com/4499216/harry-potters-4-privet-drive/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-19T14:49:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:38.538Z og:title: Harry Potter’s Childhood Home at 4 Privet Drive Is For Sale og:description: You can even sleep in the cupboard under the stairs og:url: https://time.com/4499216/harry-potters-4-privet-drive/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab802f830093a984/6988a6ab0b72e398aa6eb0ce/4-privet-drive.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Harry Potter house og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Harry Potter’s Childhood Home at 4 Privet Drive Is For Sale twitter:description: You can even sleep in the cupboard under the stairs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab802f830093a984/6988a6ab0b72e398aa6eb0ce/4-privet-drive.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # You Can Now Buy Harry Potter’s Childhood Home at 4 Privet Drive > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ## Video: Watch Fans Wait In Anticipation At The "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" Preview [Watch (HLS stream): Watch Fans Wait In Anticipation At The "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" Preview](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/yytta6aH.m3u8) (0:59)  _Published 2016-06-08_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 19, 2016 2:49 PM UTC  The house where Harry Potter lived in the Warner Brothers film 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' in Bracknell, England, on July 22, 2003. The house where Harry Potter lived in the Warner Brothers film 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' in Bracknell, England, on July 22, 2003. Warren Little—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 19, 2016 2:49 PM UTC [Harry Potter](http://time.com/4110623/j-k-rowlings-biggest-harry-potter-revelations/?iid=sr-link1) fans finally have a chance to move into his [childhood home](http://time.com/4137021/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-audition/?iid=sr-link1). No, not Gryffindor Tower, but 4 Privet Drive, where Harry spent many miserable years with his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia Dursley and their coddled son, Dudley. The family home that was used as the Dursleys’ residence in _Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone_ has been [put up for sale](https://www.chancellors.co.uk/properties/bracknell-property/linked-detached-3-bedroom-house-for-sale/2139959/martins-heron-bracknell-berkshire-rg12?filter%5BpriceLow%5D=400000&filter%5BpriceHigh%5D=575000&filter%5BminNumberOfBeds%5D=3+Bedroom%28s%29&grid=&area=Bracknell%2C+Berkshire+picket+post+close&longitude=&latitude=&branchName=Bracknell+Property&saleType=Sale), complete with enclosed backyard, three bedrooms and yes, a cupboard under the stairs. There is one glaring disparity between the actual home and the one in the film—it’s not located at 4 Privet Drive, village of Little Whinging, in the county of Surrey. Instead, the house is located at 12 Picket Post Close in Martins Heron, Bracknell in Berkshire on the outskirts of London. While moving into [Gryffindor Tower](http://time.com/4455746/j-k-rowling-pottermore-new-harry-potter-books/?iid=sr-link5) still requires a letter of acceptance from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, making 4 Privet Drive your new home requires nothing more than £475,000 (almost $620,000). Perhaps waiting for an owl from Hogwarts is more realistic. \[H/T [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2016/09/19/harry-potter-4-privet-drive-sale/?utm%5Fcid=hp-h-2)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4499216/harry-potters-4-privet-drive/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4499216/harry-potters-4-privet-drive/"},"headline":"You Can Now Buy Harry Potter’s Childhood Home at 4 Privet Drive","datePublished":"2016-09-19T14:49:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:38.538Z","description":"You can even sleep in the cupboard under the stairs","url":"https://time.com/4499216/harry-potters-4-privet-drive/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Books","Harry Potter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab802f830093a984/6988a6ab0b72e398aa6eb0ce/4-privet-drive.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab802f830093a984/6988a6ab0b72e398aa6eb0ce/4-privet-drive.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Harry Potter house","caption":"The house where Harry Potter lived in the Warner Brothers film 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' in Bracknell, England, on July 22, 2003.","creditText":"Warren Little—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4499216/harry-potters-4-privet-drive/","name":"You Can Now Buy Harry Potter’s Childhood Home at 4 Privet Drive"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch Fans Wait In Anticipation At The \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\" Preview","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/yytta6aH/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-06-08T21:47:34.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/yytta6aH.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4499216/harry-potters-4-privet-drive/","duration":"PT59S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4499216/harry-potters-4-privet-drive/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```