Ground Force’s Tommy Walsh is selling his Essex home after spending more than a decade renovating it.
The resident builder on the television garden markover show rebuilt the house from a near derelict shell.
He bought it for £29,000 just before he was offered the role on Ground Force in 1997.
The show catapulted him to fame alongside the original team of Charlie Dimmock and Alan Tichmarsh.
Tommy recently claimed ‘cement is in my blood’, having worked with his builder father from the age of four.
It is understood that applying for planning permission on the property took two years due to its Grade II listed status, and that he worked on the project with his father in the winter months when filming was over.
The property had been rented for seven years, but is now being sold as Tommy prefers his rental properties to be closer to his Hackney house.
The three bedroom home in Great Dunmow is on the market with estate agents MullucksWells for £299,950.
Ground Force finished in 2005 and Tommy went on to appear in several other shows, but none were as popular. He continues to run his building business and is currently renovating two houses in Hackney, which he will let out.
