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There are twelve street lamps in the vicinity of Number Four.
  The Muggle World
Number 4 Privet Drive
Little Whinging, Surrey

"You don't mean -- you can't mean the people who live here? Dumbledore, you can't. You couldn't find two people who are less like us. And they've got this son --"
     -- Minerva McGonagall

The home of Vernon and Petunia Dursley, their son Dudley, and their nephew Harry Potter.

A perfectly ordinary house on a perfectly ordinary street...

floorplan from the Atlas of Wizarding Britain

  • kitchen - square table, the usual furnishings, impeccably clean, television for Dudley so he doesn't have to leave the TV to get food.
  • living room with boarded up fireplace, fitted with an electric fire
  • bathroom
  • front hall with front door, which has a mail slot in it
  • stairs with cupboard under them, leading up a hall which leads to the four bedrooms upstairs:
  • garden with a hedge, a bench, and flowerbeds
see the Atlas of Wizarding Britain for the location of Little Whinging

original content copyright 2001-2 The Harry Potter Lexicon
original artwork of Harry, Dudley, and Aunt Petunia copyright 2001 Laura Freeman, used by permission
original page date 1/20/01
last page update 1/21/02