Idyllic former home of Édith Piaf for sale for £3.5 million (more…)
Tag: 19th century
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A merchant’s lodge
Georgian house in Lancashire will appeal to George Osborne’s new northern wealth (more…)
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Review: The Adria Hotel
The Steeple Times’ Matthew Steeples and ‘photographer to the stars’ John Stoddart review South Kensigton’s The Adria Hotel and are pleasantly surprised (despite the lack of alcohol) (more…)
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A cultural cottage
Cottage orné complete with its own former chapel for sale in a cultural haunt made famous by Benjamin Britten and Sir Peter Pears (more…)
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Five of the Best: Rambling ruins
Five British mansions that require new owners with bottomless pockets for sale at prices from £950,000 to over £10 million (more…)
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Cairness House – A Masonic mansion
Cairness House, “Scotland’s most important Greek Revival house”, heads into its fourth year on the market (more…)
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Fortunes and footballers
Gareth Southgate markets his £3.25 million Grade I listed Yorkshire home
Footballers are not generally noted for living in tasteful homes so it is somewhat surprising to find that the former England player turned Middlesborough manager Gareth Southgate’s current home is a Grade I listed “Elizabethan style” hall on the banks of Swinsty Reservoir, nine miles west of Harrogate. He and his wife Alison have owned it since 2006 but have been trying to sell it since June 2013. (more…)
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One down
Lennox Gardens flat with just one year left on lease sells for £550,000
Indication of London’s somewhat bonkers property market has been illustrated in news that a one bedroom flat in Knightsbridge’s Lennox Gardens has sold for a staggering £550,000 on a lease that had just one year remaining. (more…)
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Travels with du Maurier
Travelex founder puts the childhood home where Daphne du Maurier allegedly conducted two of her most illicit relationships on the market for £32 million (more…)
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Five of the Best: Conversation pieces
‘The Steeple Times’ chooses five unusual objects that will prove to be conversation pieces in any home
This week sees Christie’s South Kensington auction a selection of “unconventional” items in their second annual Out of the Ordinary sale. With the help of them, Salvage Europe and Bonhams, here we choose five of the best conversation pieces currently available (more…)