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

In the cut-throat world of TV’s Succession, his scheming character Tom Wambsgans was no stranger to closing a dramatic deal.

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

He also restored the property to its Victorian look 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 £2.25million in 2016. Now he has sold it for £3.5million – a sum that Succession’s monstrous media mogul Logan Roy would doubtless applaud.

Macfadyen’s tasteful renovations returned the six-bed house to its original look 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 £2.25million in 2016

He was granted permission in March 2018 by Richmond Council to demolish two-storey extensions in painted render on one side of the house and replace them with a classy single-storey conservatory.

The actor was also given permission for a first-floor roof terrace, with safety balustrades, accessed from the master bedroom. Notting Hill-based architect Hackett Holland said in its design statement to the council that the 19th-century house had been extended into the garden by previous owners.

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

Interior: Macfadyen’s tasteful renovations returned the six-bed house to its original look 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 in hit show Succession 

A source confirmed the completed work had made the house ‘around 15 per cent smaller’. Macfadyen and Bodyguard star Ms Hawes, 47, who married in 2004 and have two children together, are thought to have moved to an affluent area of west London.

Award-winning Succession, which was created by Briton 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 emerging as the new boss of Waystar RoyCo.