Revealed: The £3million London home where Timothy West lovingly cared for dementia-stricken Prunella Scales in the final years of their lives
This is the house where national treasure Prunella Scales lived for nearly 60 years and passed away.
The much-loved actress was still living in her beloved £3million family home near Wandsworth Common in south-west London when she died aged 93.
The house she bought with her husband Timothy West in 1968 is still listed in both of their names at the Land Registry, but Mr West had died almost a year earlier at the age of 90.
There was talk six years ago that the couple would sell, but they seem to have stuck with it.
In a moving statement on Tuesday, her sons Samuel and Joseph said Prunella died ‘peacefully at her home in London yesterday’.
Paying tribute to their ‘beloved mother’, they revealed she watched Fawlty Towers the day before she died.
In addition to his bricks and mortar, Prunella also owned Snipe Productions, a company he founded in 1972 as a young actor, two years before the first episode of Fawlty Towers.
Her husband Timothy was still listed as director despite his death in November 2024.
This is the £3 million family home near Wandsworth Common in south-west London, where national treasure Prunella Scales lived for nearly 60 years and passed away.
The house she bought with her husband Timothy West in 1968 is still listed in both of their names at the Land Registry, but Mr West had died almost a year earlier at the age of 90.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that in a final act of generosity, Timothy West left thousands of pounds of his fortune after his death to various charities close to both his and Prunella’s hearts.
The company had reserves of £293,800 as of the end of March 2024, and the accounts were signed by the couple’s son Sam, who is also a director of the company but is well known as an actor in his own right and currently stars in Channel 5’s All Creatures Great and Small.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that in a final act of generosity, Timothy West left his fortune worth thousands of pounds after his death to various charities close to both his and Prunella’s hearts.
The star, who was married to Fawlty Towers’ Ms Scales for more than 60 years and starred in Coronation Street and EastEnders, died peacefully in a hospice with his family around him in November 2024, aged 90.
In June, newly released documents showed he left £15,000 to The Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council, a fundraising organization that supports stage charities in the UK.
West also allocated £10,000 each to the Bristol Old Vic and Theater Royal Trust, Southwark Cathedral, arts charity Snipe Charitable Trust and charity Medecins Sans Frontieres UK.
Another £5,000 of his estate, worth £109,892 – £221,425 after deductions – went to the Association of Guide Dogs for the Blind.
The Brass actor left a further £20,000 to his sister Patricia Anne West in a will first drawn up in 2020 when he was living at the house in Wandsworth.
Scales, who played Sybil, wife of brusque hotel owner Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, received the remainder of the property (£29,892 in total).
An amendment to the will in March 2024 said: ‘I hereby declare that my wife Pru and I will give our son Sam a total of £300,000 to help renovate his home.’
