At the end of the garden is a picture-perfect Georgian house and standing in front of it is Richard, the white rabbit himself. He is as dashing and dandy as he was in his star-making debut in Withnail and 137 years ago, although his living quarters are a definite improvement on Withnail's decaying Camden flat. 'Come inside. People either really love it or they find it all just too, too much,' he says and, as we enter the house, he grins as my mouth falls wide open.
Richard and his wife, the dialect-coach Joan Washington, who died in 2021, spotted the house 35 years ago. They were actually viewing the house next door and this one - with the large garden and high ceilings that Richard wanted - was not for sale at the time. But five ears later it was and, as soon as Richard walked through the gate, he declared the house and garden to be ‘absolutely right’. (Read more.)
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