Where was Practical Magic 2 filmed? The locations, and why the Owens house had to be rebuilt from scratch

There's just one problem for anyone planning a pilgrimage. The movie looks like coastal New England, the original was shot in Washington State, and the sequel was filmed... in England. Actual England. Let me explain, because the geography of this franchise is more chaotic than the family curse.

The house is a lie (a beautiful, load-bearing lie)

Let's rip the bandaid off: the Owens house — the turreted Victorian fantasy that launched a thousand Pinterest boards — has never been a real home you could visit. For the 1998 film it was built on Washington's San Juan Island purely for exterior shots, designed by Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams, who pulled details straight out of Alice Hoffman's novel plus Victorian scrollwork and East Coast lighthouses. Then, once cameras stopped rolling, it was torn down. Yes. They demolished it. I need a minute.

So when the sequel moved the story to London, the filmmakers had exactly one option: build the whole thing again, from nothing, on a soundstage at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in Hertfordshire — the same lot where the Harry Potter films lived. Producer Denise Di Novi confirmed the do-over to TODAY, and she did not sugarcoat the original's fate:

"The original house we had to tear down," Di Novi said — which is why production designer Tom Burton rebuilt it from scratch, this time with a fully furnished first floor you can actually film inside, plus a working vegetable garden.

Bullock, for her part, told Marie Claire around the film's CinemaCon presentation that "we rebuilt the original house on the cliff." The cliff is fake. The feelings are real.

Where the cameras actually went

Principal photography ran from July to September 2025, and beyond Leavesden's soundstages, the production scattered itself across some genuinely great English locations:

• Redcross Way, Southwark — a narrow backstreet near London Bridge where Bullock and Kidman were spotted shooting scenes that made it into the trailer.
• The Hamptons Hall, Worcester Park — a leafy suburban development in southwest London where Bullock filmed with Dianne Wiest, back as Aunt Jet. Imagine opening your curtains on a Monday and seeing Sandra Bullock. One local did.
• Royal Hospital Chelsea — where Xolo Maridueña, playing one of the new generation, filmed scenes on a bicycle, as one does.
• Old Wardour Castle, Wiltshire — a hexagonal 14th-century ruin, half-destroyed during the Civil War when its own owner blew up the walls to evict a garrison. Which is the most Owens-family energy a building has ever had.

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So why England at all?

Because the story itself moved. The sequel, directed by Susanne Bier, jumps forward in time and drops Sally's now-grown daughters — Maisie Williams as med student Antonia and Joey King as free-spirit Kylie — into a plot set largely in London. The Pacific Northwest stand-in for Massachusetts was always movie sleight-of-hand anyway; now the sleight-of-hand has a British accent.

If you want to stand where the original magic happened, Coupeville on Whidbey Island still exists, Victorian storefronts and all. The house doesn't. It never really did. Somehow that makes it more magical, not less — a home that only exists when the Owens women need it. Midnight margaritas optional, but recommended.

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