It’s the thrilling spy drama on everyone’s lips: A mother living a secret double life as a spy, passing her politician husband’s secrets to a shadowy organisation called the Black Doves.

The Netflix show, starring Keira Knightly as the kick-ass Helen Webb, has proved an instant hit – spending a week at number one of the streaming platforms’ top 10 list.

And now fans can take a peak at some of the real-life locations that feature in the captivating series. This is the stunning five-bedroom Victoria mansion used as the Webb family home.

Nestled in the popular south London neighbourhood of Crystal Palace, stunning pictures show its sitting rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms, as well as an onsite gym, snooker room and cinema.

But while the mansion may look like the classic London home for a well-to-do family, it too leads a double life. Rather than being occupied by its owners, the house is  rented out by firm Peerspace regularly for photo shoots and filming.

The house, which is set back from the road with a simple black entry door, is set in a large garden complete with terrace, perfect for outdoor filming.

It has four large bed rooms as well as the master bedroom, which has its own en-suite and dressing room. 

The ground floor contains a spacious kitchen-dining room, with a sitting room with doors opening onto a large terrace overlooking the garden. 

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The Victorian mansion stretches across three floors and is set in the heart of London’s Crystal Palace

The house has a large kitchen-dining area with an island, bar stools and plenty of storage space

The master bedroom is situated on the first floor and has its own ensuite and dressing room

There is also a TV Room with adjoining doors to the sitting room, a roomy hallway and two downstairs bathrooms.

The first floor features the bedrooms along with two shower rooms and another bathroom.

The basement is home to another sitting room, a snooker room, kitchenette, gym and cinema room. 

The 500 square-foot home is rented out for £210 per hour, with a minimum booking time of six hours.

The home, rented by Peerspace, features as the Webb family home in the Netflix series Black Doves

The basement contains a comfy cinema room with lounge chairs and overhead lighitng

Rates for the space start at £210 per hour, with a six-hour booking period – and makes a perfect setting for photo or video shoots

Espionage thriller Black Doves has topped the charts at Netflix this week since its release

In addition to the master bedroom, there are four other bedrooms on the first floor

The home has two downstairs bathrooms and shower rooms upstairs for any raunchy shower scenes

The mansion has a terraced garden and outdoor sitting or dining space, overlooking a large garden

The garden offers plenty of green space for anyone looking to hire out the property

The home is rentable for up to 25 people, according to its Peerspace listing

Once inside the property, there is a spacious hallway leading to the rest of the rooms

The basement also has its own snooker room and small private gym (pictured)

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Used as Helen and Wallace’s family home, the prominent role of the house in Black Doves marks the series apart as an espionage thriller in that it shows the real life of the agent outside of the fights, assassins and plots.

With Keira Knightly’s character having to choose between chasing down her lover’s assassin and the school run, even receiving phone calls from her children just as she prepares to kill two assassins, the show features the less-than-glamourous side of the life of a spy.

It is a break from the Hollywood trend of portraying female spies as femme fatales – seemingly heartless killers who use their skills in the bedroom to get to their targets.

Instead, Helen Webb is a mother and wife, balancing taking care of her children with her deadly encounters. 

It is a change in how female spies are seen, even by spy agencies themselves – with MI5 and MI6 long-plagued by allegations of sexism. 

Netflix’s triumph – Black Doves has topped the platform’s charts this week – seems in part to do with this dose of normality, reflecting the challenge facing many parents of separating work from life.