Succession star Matthew Macfadyen’s £1.25million property profit on home he shares with Keeley Hawes

In the cutthroat world of TV’s Succession, his scheming character Tom Wambsgans was no stranger to striking a dramatic deal.

And in real life, Matthew Macfadyen proved his business savvy after making a £1.25 million profit on the house he shares with actress Keeley Hawes – by downsizing it.

He also restored the property to its Victorian appearance and made it easier on the eye from the street.

Macfadyen, 48, bought the yellow-brick, two-storey detached house in Twickenham, south-west of central London, for £2.25 million in 2016. He has now sold it for £3.5 million – an amount that the monstrous media magnate of Succession, Logan Roy, would no doubt applaud.

Macfadyen’s tasteful renovations returned the six-bed house to its original form by removing “architecturally chaotic” additions.

Home: Macfadyen, 48, bought the yellow-brick, two-storey detached house (pictured) in Twickenham, south-west of central London, for £2.25 million in 2016

He received permission from Richmond Council in March 2018 to demolish two-storey painted plaster extensions on one side of the house and replace them with a stylish single-storey conservatory.

The actor also received permission for a first floor roof terrace, with security railings, accessible from the master bedroom. Notting Hill-based architect Hackett Holland said in his design statement to the council that the 19th-century house had been extended into the garden by previous owners.

These expansions are architecturally chaotic and have a negative impact on the streetscape. It explained that replacement with the conservatory ‘will lead to an overall reduction in the volume built, but the original rooms will open to the garden’.

Interior: Macfadyen’s tasteful renovations returned the six-bed home to its original appearance by removing “architecturally chaotic” additions

Style: He also restored the property to its Victorian look and made it easier on the eye from the street

Success: Macfadyen pictured with Brian Cox as patriarch London on hit show Succession

A source confirmed that the completed work had made the house “about 15 percent smaller.” Macfadyen and Bodyguard star Ms Hawes, 47, who married in 2004 and has two children together, is believed to have moved to an affluent area of ​​west London.

The award-winning Succession, created by Brit Jesse Armstrong, co-writer of the Channel 4 comedy Peep Show, began in 2018 and ran for four seasons.

The final episode aired last week with Tom Wambsgans as the new boss of Waystar RoyCo.