Love Actually: home for rent on Notting Hill street in iconic rom-com scene
A Notting Hill house on the street where a pivotal scene of Love Actually was filmed has become available to rent.
With a romantic wood-burning stove and roof terrace, the two-bedroom home on St Luke’s Mews is on the market for £2,750 a week through estate agents Oliver Bernard Private.
Director Richard Curtis used the street for the scene in which Andrew Lincoln’s charactor employs a CD of Christmas carols and placards to confess his love for his best friend’s new wife, played by Kiera Knightley.
At the end of the scene, Knightley runs down the cobbles of St Luke’s Mews to give Lincoln a pity snog, but ultimately leaves him out in the cold.
The house for rent is a couple of doors down from the house that stars in the film, which was put on the market for £2 million in 2019.
Set over three floors, it offers 1,394 square feet of recently refurbished space, and is just a street away from Portabello Road market.
Crittal doors lead from the entrance hall to the kitchen, which includes the stove and a snug. A balcony runs the full length of the property on the first floor.
Upstairs, the master suite includes a bathroom with a freestanding tub and direct access to the roof terrace.
The Love Actually scene between Lincoln’s character Mark, and Knightley’s charcter Juliet has been endlessly debated since the film debuted in 2003.
Mark is initially cold towards Juliet, who marries his best mate. But when Juliet discovers he focused on her (admittedly very pretty) face for the entirity of the wedding video he filmed, she realises he may have been hiding his true feelings for her.
At the denouement of their storyline he tells her, via cue cards, that “to me, you will always be perfect”. After the kiss on St Luke’s Mews he wanders away into the night, proclaiming “enough, enough now”.
If your love for Love Actually has been thus far unrequited, this rental property could be your opportunity to live near a piece of movie magic.
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