‘Marley & Me’ house for sale

The stone house used in the film Marley & Me, with a rolling, near 16-acre spread, is up for sale in the Chadds Ford area, asking price $1.2 million.

The Holly Gross Group says the producers of the movie picked it because they were looking for a "greeting-card perfect stone house."

Built in the 1830s, it features five bedrooms, three baths and a new kitchen.

The property, on the 1000 block of Meetinghouse Road, actually in Birmingham Township, Chester County, also has a six-stall barn and "ample fenced pastures."

But potential owners of this piece of Hollywood history might want to plan on some fixer-upper expenses.

According to the real estate listing, the home has no central air, uses propane cooking fuel, has a partial unfinished basement and a septic tank. The "gentleman's farm" does, however, have a six-stall barn.

The movie Marley & Me was released in 2008 and included many scenes filmed at the house, and throughout the area, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News building.  The book was written by John Grogan, a former Inquirer columnist.

The listing by Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors-West Chester is not entirely new, and is listed as "reduced".  However, the home is a featured property this week on www.toptenrealestatedeals.com.

The home and property was initially purchased in 1996 by John and Lisa Ennis, according to property records.  They paid $440,000, but initiated many improvements.

For those in the market for a less expensive alternative, the Victorian house cartoonist Charles Addams once lived in and inspired his "Addams Family" residence is for sale in Westfield, N.J., for $839,000.

The Addams house has six bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, hardwood floors, a wood-burning fireplace, formal dining room, kitchen, front porch and rear deck.  Oh - and it's not said to be haunted.