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In this series, there were 3 scenes filmed in Martin's bedroom.  In Episode 3 he was suffering from the intestinal issues. He was seen sitting on the side of his bed mixing re hydration salts into a glass of water when he looks out the window and sees Bert selling water on the Platt.  In Episode 5 he walks into the room to retire for the night and is surprised by Melanie waiting for him.  In Episode 6 he is dreaming of Louisa in his bed with him when he is awakened by the dog kissing him and hears Louisa leaving a message about Peter Cronk's emergency on the answering machine. The rooms, furniture, and accessories are all the same in the 3 scenes.  I believe that they used a bedroom somewhere nearby - perhaps one in a cottage rented by one of the cast or crew.

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In the first few years, I don't believe they constructed a set for the upstairs of the surgery.  Because there were only a few scenes in Martin's bedroom in the first 4 series, I suspect that they used rooms in local cottages where cast or crew were staying during the shooting.  See the sections below for pictures of the rooms used in S1 - S4. This overview will be about the rooms as they are shown starting in S5.  There are 4 areas: Martin & Louisa's bedroom James Henry's bedroom Bathroom Hallway leading to the stairwell

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There are 2 windows on the back wall of this room.  The smaller one is a small square window high on the wall next to the entrance to the bathroom.  The larger one is a double hung window that has blue stained glass pieces in all 4 corners, with opaque pieces between at the top and bottom of the window. The larger window has a roller shade that is sometimes pulled all the way down and sometimes pulled partway down the window.

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This cute little fireplace sits on the wall in the corner next to Louisa's side of the bed.

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The evolution of Martin's wardrobe is a bit of a head scratcher.  We first saw it in S3E7 when he went into it twice as he was dressing for the non-wedding.  But the wardrobe was built into the wall in a bedroom that really does not look like it was a set.  Not only do the walls and doors look far different than the ones we normally see on the sets for this show, but none of the furniture or the accessories were seen either before or after these scenes were shot for S3 - which usually indicates that they used a furnished room somewhere nearby. The first time we glimpse the wardrobe in the newly constructed bedroom set is midway through S5, and it seems to perfectly match the one from S3.  As time passes, every glimpse we see of the wardrobe confirms that it's the same front as the S3 one, with one exception - it doesn't have the cross hatch design above because the slope of the ceiling doesn't leave room for it.  But!  The interior is identical - with the exact same wallpaper lining the walls. So, it's confounding that the built in wardrobe from the bedroom they used in S3 ended up on the new set.  But then I remembered a photo (taken on the set) that I found online a few years earlier that contained that same wardrobe -  although the rest of the room that was visible wasn't familiar.  Looking at it again, I noticed the unusual design of the bedside table and looked back at some screenshots - it's a perfect match for the one from S2.  In that series there were only a couple of very quick scenes that were shot through the door and all you saw was a little bit of the bed and that table.  So I think that they constructed a room on the set for S2 that had the wardrobe in the corner, but that area of the room never ended up on camera. My theory now is that it was constructed for S2 and never seen.  So, it was somehow fitted into the room for those couple of scenes in S3, and then permanently installed in the room that they built on the set starting in S5.

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On the left is a screenshot from S2.  On the right is a photo from the set that I believe was a corner of that room constructed for S2.  Notice that the bedside table matches the one from the screenshot - and the finish on the bed also seem to match.

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Here is a shot that shows the wall above the wardrobe.  Because of the angled roof line there wasn't room to use the decorative crosshatch piece above.

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The shot on the left is from S3, and on the right from S6, showing the same wallpaper.

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Another clue that this is the same piece used in all three places is the broken piece of wood just above the door hinge. You can see the same flaw in the wood in the unseen wardrobe from S2 (right), the bedroom used for S3 (below left), and the bedroom built on the set for S5 + (below right).

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James Henry's Bedroom

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James started sleeping in a crib in Martin & Louisa's bedroom, but moved into his own room across the hall in S6.  This room was also used as a guest bedroom for Martin's mother in S6 and for Martin in S7 before he moved out of the Surgery.   In one scene, we got a glimpse of the window and it has similar stained glass to the one in Martin & Louisa's room.

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Bathroom

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The only full bathroom in the house (there is a small powder room under the stairs in the Waiting Room) is the en suite attached to Martin & Louisa's bedroom.  There is one step up into the room from the bedroom.  A bathtub sits on one side and on the wall facing the door is a green porcelain pedestal sink with a matching green toilet opposite (next to the door).  The only visible areas for storage around the sink are a couple of wooden ledges built into the wall next to the sink.  There is also a square cut into the wall above the bathtub for shampoo and soap bottles, and the windowsill at the head of the tub is also utilized.  Interestingly, there is no shower on the tub - I guess Martin & Louisa take tub baths every morning?  But then, I think we must consider that there is a shower room somewhere on that level that we just never see.  A light green fabric chair sits next to the tub, a wooden changing table sits against the wall across from the tub, and in S8 we see a woven laundry basket next to the sink.

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We've seen the little glimpse of the hallway between Martin & Louisa's bedroom and James Henry's bedroom for a few series now.  The only thing we knew was that there was a window between the 2 rooms with some accessories sitting on the deep windowsill.  A couple of times, Martin exited his bedroom and turned to the right, so that was presumably the way to the staircase.  But, in S7E1 while brushing his teeth, Martin hears the phone ringing downstairs and assumes it is Louisa.  He runs out of the room, down the hallway, and trips down the first few steps banging into the wall on the landing before tumbling down the longer flight of steps.  Although the screenshots are very dark, you can make out the turns he makes.  He turns right out of the bedroom, down a short hall, then left, down another short hall, then right again - presumably onto the short flight of steps to the landing.  In picture "C" you can see the 2 different wallpapers - the little bit of the one on the far right matches the wallpaper in the stairwell, so I'm guessing this starts the couple of stairs down to the landing. I found a picture someone had taken on the set, and it gives a nice view of this hallway.  You can see the large painting on the wall (the scene of Port Isaac that has hung in several places in the surgery) and a small glance of the yellowish wallpaper that is on the wall before the more beige wallpaper of the stairwell.

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These are scenes from S1 and S2 showing that the wallpaper in the stairwell has always been there.   Note that in S2 it was torn at the top.

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In S4 there were several changes to the sets, including several radiators, wallpaper in the Consulting Room, and wallpaper on the bottom half of the stairwell wall.  All of these things were only there in S4 and it was all back to normal in S5. This picture above is how the stairwell normally looked with the painted wall.  On the right are two views of the wallpaper.

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On the left side of the room is a window with a large carved wooden fish on the windowsill.  Against the back wall is the bed with a green wooden headboard.  There are wooden tables on each side with tall lamps and a painting on the wall above on each side.  On the right table there is also some type of carved head - another Buddha?  The bedroom door is on the right wall, and on the front wall there appears to be a dresser (you can see it in the foreground of the photo of the window above).  There is also a picture on the wall above the dresser (you can see it behind Martin) and another one in the corner between the dresser and the window (see behind Melanie).

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One interesting shot is when Martin looks through the window to see Bert on the Platt.  On the left, the 2 pictures on top are from screenshots from the episode, and the 2 on the bottom are from a video someone took of the interior of Fern Cottage.   You can see that the shot of Martin standing next to the window was not filmed in the cottage, because Fern Cottage has a stone area on the wall - an extension of the chimney from the fireplace in the room below.  But when the camera shot moves to show the view through the window, it appears that they did actually film that from Fern Cottage.  The angle and the roof line of the cottage next door match.

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There were 3 scenes filmed in this room in S2, but all of them were from outside the room looking in, so there wasn't much visible.  In Episode 1, Martin is putting on his jacket and hears Pauline and Al talking - he thinks they are talking about him and his possible interest in Louisa.  You can see a window on the right wall, the light wood headboard on the bed, and the table to the right of the bed holding a lamp and a blue bottle.  There's an angled ceiling and the walls are made from rough boarding painted white.  In Episode 2, Peter Cronk comes into the room in the middle of the night to show Martin the rash he has developed.  In this scene more of the bed is visible and there is a better view of the nightstand.  There is also a glimpse of the door in the shot of Peter standing in the doorway.  In Episode 3, we see an almost identical view of Martin in the bed when he hears Wallace Flynt leaving him a message. I had found a picture from the set and was able to connect it to S2 because it has a nightstand on the left side of the bed that matches the one we saw on the right side.  Also, in the shot of Peter in the doorway, there is a white box on the wall that matches the one from the set.  So, it looks like they constructed a whole set - including that wardrobe that was never seen - just for these 3 very short scenes.

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This bedroom was seen in just 2 episodes in S3.  In Episode 5, we saw Martin waking up the morning after breaking up with Louisa, still fully clothed on top of his bed.  We get a very quick view of one wall - that includes a dresser and fireplace.  In Episode 7, he is in the room twice (4 scenes with cuts to other scenes between), both times getting dressed for the non wedding.  The first one after the procedure on the pig when he discovers that the dry cleaner gave him a dress, and the second one after delivering the baby on the hill. We only see 3 sides of the room - see my drawing below.  The top is a small fireplace and a dresser, on the left is a closed door (never used - but maybe to a bathroom?), a nightstand, bed and a wooden chair, and on the bottom is the wardrobe in the corner (that perfectly matches the one seen in the S2 set picture), a dresser with a mirror above, and the doorway out of the room. The tall ceiling and the more polished look of this room makes me think that this is also a room in a cottage somewhere that they used for these few scenes.   Besides the wardrobe, the only other items in the room that they have used before (or since) are the two lamps on the dressers.

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Series 4

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In S4 there is only one 7 second scene in Episode 3 set in the bedroom.  Martin is seen sleeping and waking up to his phone ringing - it's Penhale calling because his brother has collapsed.  All we see is a small portion of the wooden headboard and the nightstand.   See below for the only other upstairs scene - another 7 second scene in the bathroom in that same episode.  I have to believe that these were both filmed in a bedroom and bathroom in a nearby cottage.  It wouldn't make sense for them to build a bathroom set with tile on the wall for this short scene.  There will be a set for these rooms next series and there is no tile on the bathroom wall.

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Martin's Bedroom

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In this very short scene we see Martin brushing his teeth at the bathroom sink.   He hears a noise downstairs (Penhale's brother painting the Waiting Room) and heads downstairs.

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Bathroom

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Consulting Room

Waiting Room

Kitchen

Living Room

Gold Buddha

White Buddha

Small Buddhas

Upstairs

S1-S2 Consulting Room comparison

Porch/Door/Vestibule - Interior Hall