Monty Python's studio is one of Camden's most breathtaking houses — and it's now up for rent at £100,000 a month

By the start of the 1980s, the Monty Python comedy troupe — John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam — were perhaps the most famous comedians in the world. They'd graduated from their iconic, surreal TV show of the 1970s to producing a string of hugely successful films, including Monty Python's Life of Brian and Monty Python and the Holy Grail .

That much you probably knew. What you probably didn't know is that around that same time, they had a purpose-built studio erected in Camden, on Delancey Street, half-way between Camden Lock and Regent's Park. They called it Milkwood Studios, in honour of Dylan Thomas who had briefly (and rather unhappily) lived in a basement flat down the road at number 54 (a blue plaque celebrates the poet's stay).