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This is the front entrance to the manor,

our principal, permanent set

where everything has been going on for the last eight years.

Follow me.

The manor is a Victorian mansion in San Francisco.

It's a gorgeous, old house, very charming.

It feels like their home. You feel very comfortable.

It's built out just like a real house.

When you walk into it,

| feel like I'm looking at a real house.

This is where all--

A lot of the action takes place when we're in the manor.

A lot of action going up and down those stairs.

Take her for me, will you?

What? Who?

Because demons attack a lot here,

that railing gets knocked off an awfully lot.

Every corner has a wall broken in

or chairs flying or there was a fireball--

We have a grandfather clock that always seems to get blown up.

Smashed a bunch of different times.

That is an antique.

Not the clock! We can't afford to keep fixing that thing.

We counted 30 times we'd broken that grandfather clock.

Okay.

The grandfather clock burned 20 times and it kept coming back.

We always joked that there must be a grandfather clock

repair shop just down the street.

It was kind of a running gag, in fact, in the big destruction of the manor now

one of the things that survives is the grandfather clock.

True fans who know about the grandfather clock

will see it there as a tribute in the final episode.

The idea for a Victorian setting never changed.

It's always been that way.

The house is a Victorian house set, supposedly, in San Francisco,

although, this particular Victorian house is set on Paramount lot.

You'd hang out on that set

and feel like you were hanging around a Victorian mansion.

And there's no ceiling.

There's lights pointing down, but it was gorgeous.

Often times when we're shooing on that set,

instead of going to the trailers,

the girls will be sitting on the couch or sitting in the living room

because they felt comfortable in there too.

I'm known for asking if | can just sit in the scene

even if it's some big thing with demon.

"Can | sit now?" They never let me.

But occasionally | can sit in the scene which is delightful and comfortable.

You know what?

Maybe | should call in the big guns.

Behind you, over here, is a very famous spot

where the first of the three Charmed Ones died.

It was through this wall that Prue was blasted through

and into the conservatory over here.

No!

| think we did our really first big, big gag in the conservatory.

Well, this is the conservatory, this is the light, airy room of the house.

We've blown out windows--

The girls are always getting thrown through one window or another.

We had Belthazor as a demon and we threw him--

Shannen threw him out of the conservatory via the big windows.

Through this door we go to the kitchen,

and many, many a brew in the kitchen has been made.

I've done a lot of scenes mixing potions

and there was, you know, poofing and all that, which is kind of interesting.

The kitchen was my least favourite because it was hard to shoot in there.

It took a little more time than other places.

Favourite place in the manor, and | have a lot.

Because | walked there the other day,

| went through every spot that we've pulled people, done a big stunt in.

I'll always remember the-- In the dining room,

I think it was the wedding ceremony between Leo and Piper.

And it was officiated by Grams and it was--

The special effects on the stage were quite remarkable.

It's on this table where we've had weddings.

It's on this table where Piper gave birth to Wyatt.

Here we go.

- That's it, baby. - | see his shoulder.

Is that what | think it is?

If you're referring to Mr. Winky between the legs, yes.

At the end of the hall, here, is a bedroom that doubles

for Wyatt's and Chris' nursery.

It also doubles as Paige's room

and as Phoebe's room when she used to live here.

One of my favourite scenes in the manor took place in Piper's bedroom.

In the last episode we just shot, Holly goes back in time

and finds her mother and father making love in bed conceiving Phoebe.

So that's kind of shocking for her.

Oh, my God.

A lot of great things have happened in that bedroom.

The attic just screams Charmed.

It's kind of a jumble. It's kind of a--

Something that you might find in an old Victorian house.

The attic is where it all happens. The attic is where the spells are cast,

where the girls come to to find answers to their problems.

Everything the family had owned that was magical

ended up in the attic.

That's where Phoebe discovered the trunk in the premiere episode

and in that trunk was the Book of Shadows.

And that's how the Halliwell sisters discovered that they were witches

and they came from a line of witches

and that they had magical powers.

Over here in the attic,

right here, is where the Book of Shadows usually is.

And this is where most all the exciting stuff happens.

A demon who likes to kills witches.

Well, that narrows it down to about every page in the Book.

The Book of Shadows, it's the legacy of the show.

It is everything about the manor. It is everything about the girls.

To me, the Book is the microcosm of all the sets of the entire shows.

The Book of Shadows is kept under lock and key

but that was to me where all the power was.

What's with the Book?

Well, | think we should write everything down.

Everything that happened, everything we want future generations to know

so that we can pass it down. Just like it was passed down to us.

The whole manor in general, it's just a great set.

The fact that we were able to have so much mobility and freedom to roam.

It helped get into whatever it was, because we were in a house.

It was truly a home.

I've been to that set countless times.

You walk back into the back of the kitchen

and then there's an open slot and then you walk out of it

and then you're in this huge open room,

you walk and you're upstairs.

Go into another place and you're in the attic

and it's all laid out like a ranch-style house, not like an actual house.

But it never ceases to amaze me, how, whenever | watch the show

my brain just like fits it all together and | just forget that.

Blowing up the manor, that was pretty amazing.

| think everybody felt a little sad and felt sort of the ending.

It was a cathartic experience

to stand in the rubble of this demolished building.

And | sort of stepped back and let the fact that it was all gone wash over me.

And that was, you know, it was sentimental.

We all felt the memories of eight years

of being in this manor, in this house.

Well, the manor is definitely its own character. It had a life of its own.

Once you become part of a family, something binds you

and sometimes it's more than just feelings.

There's just-- There's elements.

Whether it's the house, the kids, they all grew up there

and they all stayed there and lived there

and | think the house was incredibly important.