Peter Cook's House of Historic Hedonism: Boozy blowouts with the Rolling Stones ...

The thick carpet of records, books, discarded faxes, unopened mail dating back to 1972, uncashed cheques, overflowing ashtrays, empty vodka bottles and piles of yellowing newspapers is long gone.

So is the passport and driving licence, once Blu-tacked to the sitting room wall for ease of access by the late, great satirist Peter Cook. ('Greatest invention of the 20th century, Blu-tack', he was fond of saying.)

And the bowls of sunglasses, vast hat collections and graffiti seem unimaginable.

The word 'oxymoron' — which Cook would often forget — was scrawled across one wall. In the narrow hallway there was a reddish-brown blotch of a squashed insect circled and captioned 'fly'.

Peter Cook pictured with his fiancee, English actress Judy Huxtable, at Ma Bell's restaurant which followed the opening night of 'Good Evening', at the Plymouth Theater, New York

Peter Cook pictured with his fiancee, English actress Judy Huxtable, at Ma Bell's restaurant which followed the opening night of 'Good Evening', at the Plymouth Theater, New York

Today, this sprawling three-storey home, halfway down a mews of 18th-century coach houses, is a vision of pristine delight.

The North London property has just gone on the market for £5 million — and is next week set to be adorned with a blue plaque to honour Cook's tenure.

But when Peter Cook lived here — from 1974 until his death from a gastrointestinal haemorrhage in 1995, aged 57 — this gothic folly saw enough louche activities to turn any prospective buyer's ears pink.

Everyone who was anyone seems to have partied at Perrin's Walk — the Pythons; Stephen Fry, David Gower, Dave Stewart, the Rolling Stones. And Cook's diminutive comedy partner, Dudley Moore.

The pair would pace round the garden writing sketches, trying out jokes and, increasingly, rubbing each other up the wrong way as Moore sought Hollywood success while Cook embraced a quiet life with triple vodka and orange for breakfast.

It was at a Perrin's Walk party that a dripping wet Cook greeted his guests by explaining he had just jumped into the koi carp pond after setting his trousers on fire while lighting candles.

Perrins Walk is a charming private mews and is perfectly located for the Hampstead Village lifestyle, according to a recent listing

Perrins Walk is a charming private mews and is perfectly located for the Hampstead Village lifestyle, according to a recent listing

Dudley Moore and Peter Cook standing in the backyard of the famous party house

Dudley Moore and Peter Cook standing in the backyard of the famous party house 

Cook's daughters Daisy and Lucy, from his first wife Wendy, occasionally lent a hand. 'I remember asking Keith Richards what he'd like to drink. 'Whisky!' he commanded,' Daisy said. 'As I returned with a glass, he looked at me blankly and said: 'I meant a bottle.'

When an admiring Ronnie Wood asked his host who the waitress was, Cook sharply responded: 'That's my daughter — hands off!'

Cook himself welcomed a steady stream of women. Indeed, it was here, hidden in a suitcase upstairs in the master bedroom, that second wife Judy Huxtable spied on her husband, trying to catch him in flagrante.

If she'd been pushed to the edge, it was no surprise. For Cook had a voracious appetite for women and was not the sort to let a little detail like wives — three of them, to be precise — get in the way of a bit of extracurricular fun.

Peter Cook and his wife Judy Huxtable. Cooked lived in the party house from 1974 until his death from a gastrointestinal haemorrhage in 1995, aged 57

Peter Cook and his wife Judy Huxtable. Cooked lived in the party house from 1974 until his death from a gastrointestinal haemorrhage in 1995, aged 57

Everyone who was anyone seems to have partied at Perrin's Walk ¿ the Pythons; Stephen Fry, David Gower, Dave Stewart, the Rolling Stones. And Cook's diminutive comedy partner, Dudley Moore (pictured together)

Everyone who was anyone seems to have partied at Perrin's Walk — the Pythons; Stephen Fry, David Gower, Dave Stewart, the Rolling Stones. And Cook's diminutive comedy partner, Dudley Moore (pictured together)

Over the years, he bedded a vast array of beauties including President J.F. Kennedy's wife, Jackie, and her sister, Lee Radziwill.

When famous women such as Germaine Greer visited, he would flirt furiously. He also whisked Hollywood actress Raquel Welch and Bond Girl Ursula Andress out for the evening,

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