By Becky Johnson, North of England Correspondent
John Lennon's childhood home in Liverpool is going up for auction at the Cavern Club in his home city this evening.
The three-bedroom red brick terrace was Lennon's first home and where the Beatles legend lived with his parents and grandparents until he was five.
The house is on Newcastle Road in the famous Penny Lane area of Liverpool which inspired many of Lennon's songs. The area is still visited by Beatles' fans.
The modest family home has a guide price of between £150,000 and £250,000. It has a lounge, family room and kitchen with three bedrooms and a family bathroom upstairs. There is a walled backyard outside.
Stephen Giddins from Entwistle Green estate agents told Sky News the owners decided to sell the house at auction because they simply do not know how much it will sell for.
John Lennon on stage at the Cavern in 1961 "It's very difficult to put a price on a house like this because you don't know what someone who is a huge Beatles fan will be prepared to pay to live in John Lennon's former home.
"We've had interest from across the whole of the UK and we've got at least a couple of people wanting to bid from the United States over the telephone."
Mr Giddins said among those he has shown round the house since it's been on the market was John Lennon's half-sister, Julia Baird.
"She wasn't looking at the house with a view to buying it, she was just really keen to come and see the house to remind herself of the time that she lived here.
John Lennon as a schoolboy, aged eight "She referred to the fact that the back bedroom was John's bedroom, her parents were in the room next door and her grandparents slept in the main front bedroom.
"She recalls there were always lots of children playing in the alley out the back of the house and how they made a swing in their backyard for all their friends to play on."
The current owner told the Liverpool Echo: "I'll be sad to leave John Lennon's first home but I am retired now and would really like a property with a bigger garden.
"I have made sure original features have been preserved so that they reflect the 1960s period, when the Beatles wowed the whole world with their rock and roll music.
"The main structure of the house and features, such as the original Victorian sliding sash windows, are as they were when John Lennon lived here with his parents and his grandparents from 1940 onwards."
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