New Photos Reportedly Show Privet Drive Set Construction for HBO’s “Harry Potter” TV Series

by · May 19, 2025

The first photos showing the construction of one of the sets for the Harry Potter TV series have emerged, and it is reportedly going to be Privet Drive. 

According to aerial photographs and video posted on social media by UnBoxPHD, the production isn’t reusing old sets or digitally recreating the iconic suburban street where Harry grows up with his aunt, uncle, and cousin. Instead, they’re constructing a brand-new Privet Drive, which looks to have a Tudor-style update with much larger houses than the ones seen in the films. 

 

Tudor-style houses under construction

Source: @UnBoxPHD/Twitter

 

Buildings under construction at the end of a long driveway

Source: @UnBoxPHD/Twitter

 

Some may be wondering whether a new Privet Drive set is really necessary, but those who have read the Harry Potter books will know that many scenes featuring the Dursleys’ house never made it into the films – from a series of Harry’s magical mishaps in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (including regrowing his hair overnight and vanishing onto a school roof) to Mr. Weasley blasting into the Dursleys’ living room via Floo powder in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, destroying their fireplace in the process. Plus, we can’t forget the full Dursley goodbye in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when there’s a longer farewell scene in which members of the Order arrive to escort the Dursleys into hiding, and Dudley thanks Harry for saving his life and shakes his hand. And that’s just to name a few of them.

 

 

 

Whether it’s for a brief flashback or something more elaborate, if the set is Privet Drive, this series is going all in. The Sun published another photograph reportedly of the Privet Drive set under construction, this one from the ground.

 

The view of the construction site with Leavesden Studios in the background

The view of the construction site with Leavesden Studios in the background. (Source: The Sun/Click News/Malfoy)

 

While HBO hasn’t officially confirmed that the set is for Harry Potter, its location at Leavesden Studios makes it highly likely, and this kind of commitment shows how seriously HBO is taking the reboot.

Grace Hurley

I'm an animal-loving Ravenclaw with a Masters Degree in Writing and a passion for the Harry Potter universe since the age of five.