25-05-2025
Sir Laurence Olivier's former house in Sussex on sale for £1.75m
Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame Joan Plowright's former West Sussex home is up for born in Dorking in Surrey, and Plowright bought the property at The Malthouse near Steyning together in the property - still owned by family of the acting greats and used as a holiday let - has an asking price of £ agent Toby Brown told BBC Radio Sussex: "We are wanting someone to buy into the legacy as much as they love the house."
The family has owned the property for over 60 years according to Mr Brown, of TLC Estate Agents in London."In my 20-year career of doing this I've never sold something like this before," he couple bought the farmhouse not long after marrying in 1961 and added extensions and outbuildings throughout their time in the property, according to property features a tennis court and indoor swimming Brown said: "It's just so private and I think that was the big thing for them, being very well-known actors."Olivier died while living at the property in 1989. Plowright died in January aged 95.
According to TLC, the property has hosted several celebrities over the years, including Sir Ian McKellen while he rehearsed for Macbeth with Olivier, who had also performed the Shakespeare play's lead 2018 documentary Nothing Like a Dame, featuring Plowright with Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith, was filmed at the Brown said: "If walls could talk, these really could."I really wanted to romanticise and dramatise what is a very dramatic house with so many stories within it."
Plowright first appeared opposite Olivier on stage in The Entertainer at the Royal Court in was married to Gone With The Wind star Vivien Leigh at the time, and Plowright was married to her first husband Roger was knighted in 1947 and awarded a life peerage in 1970. He won an Oscar, Emmy Awards and Golden Globes for his on-screen actor became the first ever director of the National Theatre as well as the first artistic director at Chichester Festival Theatre in accolades include two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, and she was made a dame in 2004.
