In the film, William Thackery [played by Hugh Grant] shares a house in Notting Hill with Spike [played by Rhys Ifans] - this blue front door appears in several key scenes between Anna Scott [played by Julia Roberts] and William, at the beginning of the film, William introduces his home....So this is where I spend my days and years - in this small village, in the middle of a city, in a house with a blue door, that my wife and I bought together before she left me for a man who looked like Harrison Ford, and where I now lead a strange half-life with a lodger called...Spike...
Notting Hill is the highest grossing British film ever made, and since its release, the front door to 280 Westbourne Park Road has become a bona fide tourist attraction, so much so, that the current owner, who purchased the house from the film's screenwriter, Richard Curtis, has reluctantly had to part with it.