ONE LUCKY comedy fan has the chance to get their hands on Ronnie Barker's childhood home.

The Cowley house where the The Two Ronnies and Porridge star lived from 1935 to 1949 will next week go on sale for £350,000.

Current owner Dr Zena Hamash said she had no idea of the property’s history when she bought 23 Church Cowley Road in 2002, explaining: "It said Leonard Barker, his father, on the deeds so really there was no reason to know anything about it.

"We were blissfully unaware of the history at the time just that it was a lovely 1930s house and, as luck would have it, as an archaeologist I'm keen on preserving original features so I made sure they were looked after."

The 39-year-old added: "It must have been nearly 10 years later when a woman from Oxfordshire Blue Plaque Society knocked on my door and asked whether I'd mind them putting up a plaque for Ronnie Barker."

The group normally only honour people at least 25 years after their death, but made an exception for Mr Barker, who died in 2005.

When the plaque was unveiled in September 2012, the then Lord Mayor of Oxford, Alan Armitage, said: “Ronnie Barker lived in our lives. He was a product of Oxford."

Dr Hamash said: "I get people stopping to take photographs and get comments from people delivering things.

"It's really nice that it's to someone who people know and love.”

The perks have kept coming for the archaeology lecturer, who teaches at Royal Holloway University, saying: "The BBC approached me about a series they were making where comedians talked about their comedy heroes.

"Hugh Dennis picked Ronnie Barker and so they came to do a little bit of filming in the house and I met Hugh Dennis, which was really nice."

She added she would be sad to leave the house but it was time to move on, saying: “It’s time for someone else to enjoy the house and its history now.”

The plaque is not the only homage to the comic in Oxford, with George Street pub The Four Candles named after his famous sketch with Ronnie Corbett in honour of it formerly being High School for Boys, which Mr Barker attended.