Revealed: Prunella Scales' £3m home where she lived before her death

This is the home where national treasure Prunella Scales lived for nearly 60 years - and where she passed away.

The much-loved actress was still living in her beloved £3million family home near Wandsworth Common, south-west London, when she died, aged 93.

The house she bought with husband Timothy West in 1968 is still listed in both their names at the Land Registry, though Mr West died almost a year ago, aged 90.

There was talk of the couple selling up six years ago, but they appear to have hung onto it.

Prunella died 'peacefully at home in London yesterday', her sons Samuel and Joseph said in a moving statement on Tuesday.

Paying tribute to their 'darling mother', they revealed she was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died.

As well as their bricks and mortar, Prunella also owned Snipe Productions - a company she incorporated in 1972 as a young actress two years before the first episode of Fawlty Towers.

Husband Timothy was still listed as a director despite his death in November 2024.

The company had reserves of £293,800 as of the end of March 2024 and the accounts were signed off by the couple's son Sam, also a director of the company, but better known as an actor in his own right, currently starring in Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.

Earlier this year it was revealed that in a final act of generosity, Timothy West left thousands of pounds of his fortune to a variety of charities which were close to both his and Prunella's hearts after his death.

The star, who was married to Fawlty Towers' Ms Scales for more than 60 years and appeared in soaps Coronation Street and EastEnders, died peacefully with his family around him at a care home in November 2024, aged 90.

In June, newly released documents showed he left £15,000 to The Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council, a fundraising organisation which supports UK stage charities.

West also put £10,000 aside for each of the Bristol Old Vic and Theatre Royal Trust, Southwark Cathedral, arts charity Snipe Charitable Trust and aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres UK.

Another £5,000 of his £109,892 estate, reduced from £221,425 after deductions, went to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

The Brass actor left a further £20,000 to his sister Patricia Anne West in the will which was initially drawn up in 2020 while he was living at the house in Wandsworth.

Scales, who played Sybil, the wife of rude hotel owner Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, received the remainder of the estate - a sum of £29,892.

An amendment to the will in March 2024 stated: 'I declare jointly with my wife Pru we are giving to our son Sam the sum of £300,000 to aid the renovation of his home.'