From the outside it looks like a typical, unassuming semi in suburban south Manchester.
But this five bedroom house in Didsbury played an unlikely role in television history and 20th Century modern art.
Formerly home to renowned sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, it's where the artist produced many of her most celebrated works.
And, working in a garage which had been converted into her studio, it's also where in 1955 she designed the BAFTA gold mask statue, which is still given to winners at the annual TV awards ceremony to this today.
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New York-born Mitzi moved to Manchester after marrying history professor Marcus Cunliffe in 1949.
The couple lived in the five-bed semi on Cranmer Road from 1951 to 1964.
From there she took on a string of large scale commissions, producing some of the north west’s most influential public artworks.
Some of her surviving pieces include the stone frieze at the pumping station at Heaton Park reservoir, Man and Technic, which has pride of place at the Manchester Health Academy, and Cosmos I, a fibreglass relief at the base of Owens Park Student Tower.
Following a crowdfunding campaign by the Manchester-based Modernist Society and the 20th Century Society a plaque was put up outside the house in 2018 to mark the centenary of her birth.
Writing in 2012 Modernist Society founder Maureen Ward paid tribute to the life and work of Mitzi, who died in 1970 aged 88.
She wrote: "If we were the sort to award blue plaques or lobby for a Hollywood-style Wall of Fame scheme in our own city, Mitzi would top the bill.
"She epitomises the spirit of an exuberant, utopian partnership between planners, architects, artists and sculptors dedicated to rejuvenating the public realm after the chaos of the blitz; functional yet accessible, experimental yet egalitarian, international yet rooted in everyday surroundings.
"Mitzi might have been born in New York but her soul belongs firmly in the North West of England and her Didsbury garage."
The 1920s semi is now on the market for £675,000.
Estate agents Gascoigne Halman describe it as an 'attractive and spacious' home on a 'on a quiet tree lined cul-de-sac only moments from Didsbury village'
They write: "The property comes with an interesting history having been the residence where famous sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe designed the BAFTA award that is used today.
"The property offers a grand entrance hallway, three reception rooms, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and an additional one bedroom annexe to the rear. Whilst in need of some modernisation the property boasts superb potential to enhance further."
