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  • An Eaton Mess

    An Eaton Mess

    Eaton Square apartment for sale for £22.5 million in spite of needing complete renovation; it is listed at a price 25% cheaper than it was five years earlier in identical condition

    80 Eaton Square in Belgravia is an address where two well-known names have both lived (albeit it very briefly). Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1925 – 2013) “temporarily” resided in a “Greek shipowner’s flat” there after leaving office whilst the American financier and philanthropist George Peabody (1795 – 1869) stayed and died in the home of the Anglo-American fur merchant Sir Curtis Lampson (1806 – 1885).

     

    Grade II* listed and featuring a Greater London Council blue plaque commemorating Peabody, the stucco fronted building on the square’s northern terrace featured in The Steeple Times in September 2015. At that time, part of its ground and basement floors were placed for sale for the not too shabby sum of £30 million ($37 million, €33.4 million or درهم135.9 million) in spite of being a “complete wreck.”

     

    Now, five years later and most surprisingly in no better condition, the very same apartment has been relisted for just £22.5 million ($27.8 million, €25 million or درهم102 million) through agents Chestertons.

     

    Extending in total to 6,173 square foot, the duplex was previously promoted with a fancy design scheme by David Collins Studio but now is simply listed as a “5 bedroom maisonette” with “potential to create one of the finest homes in Eaton Square.” It comes with a private garden to the rear and access to the communal spaces of the square also.

     

    Pictured top: Baroness Thatcher, the entrance to 80 Eaton Square and a statue of George Peabody.

     

    Eaton Square’s ‘Famous Faces’

    Considered one of the best addresses in London and built for and still mostly owned by the Grosvenor family, Eaton Square features six adjoining, tree-planted gardens dissected by a four lane highway between Victoria and Sloane Square.

     

    Amongst the well-known people who have variously lived in the square are:

     

    No. 1 – Lord Boothby, paedophile and politician.

    No. 7 – Sir Sean Connery, actor.

    No. 7a – Lily Safra, philanthropist.

    No. 11 – Lord Lloyd-Webber, composer, and separately Dame Joan Collins, actress.

    No. 12 – Sir Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist.

    No. 22 – Lord Lucan, aristocrat who disappeared, and later Sir Roger Moore, actor.

    No. 29 – Sir Terence Rattigan, playwright.

    No. 37 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister and prior to him Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi politician.

    No. 54 – Vivien Leigh, actress and Laurence Olivier, actor.

    No. 65a – Scene of the arrest of John Daly, train robber.

    No. 68 – Sir Barry Gibb, musician.

    No. 75 – Sir Rex Harrison, actor.

    No. 76 – The Aga Khan, royal.

    No. 82 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

    No. 90 – Sir William Gilbert, one half of Gilbert & Sullivan.

    No. 93 – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister.

     

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    An Eaton Mess – £22.5m for unrenovated 80 Eaton Square, SW1 – Eaton Square apartment for sale for £22.5 million through Chestertons in spite of needing complete renovation; Flats A & C, 80 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9AP, United Kingdom are listed at a price 25% cheaper than it was five years earlier when it was priced at £30 million through Savills.
    An Eaton Mess – £22.5m for unrenovated 80 Eaton Square, SW1 – Eaton Square apartment for sale for £22.5 million through Chestertons in spite of needing complete renovation; Flats A & C, 80 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9AP, United Kingdom are listed at a price 25% cheaper than it was five years earlier when it was priced at £30 million through Savills.
    An Eaton Mess – £22.5m for unrenovated 80 Eaton Square, SW1 – Eaton Square apartment for sale for £22.5 million through Chestertons in spite of needing complete renovation; Flats A & C, 80 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9AP, United Kingdom are listed at a price 25% cheaper than it was five years earlier when it was priced at £30 million through Savills.
    An Eaton Mess – £22.5m for unrenovated 80 Eaton Square, SW1 – Eaton Square apartment for sale for £22.5 million through Chestertons in spite of needing complete renovation; Flats A & C, 80 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9AP, United Kingdom are listed at a price 25% cheaper than it was five years earlier when it was priced at £30 million through Savills.
    An Eaton Mess – £22.5m for unrenovated 80 Eaton Square, SW1 – Eaton Square apartment for sale for £22.5 million through Chestertons in spite of needing complete renovation; Flats A & C, 80 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9AP, United Kingdom are listed at a price 25% cheaper than it was five years earlier when it was priced at £30 million through Savills.
    An Eaton Mess – £22.5m for unrenovated 80 Eaton Square, SW1 – Eaton Square apartment for sale for £22.5 million through Chestertons in spite of needing complete renovation; Flats A & C, 80 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9AP, United Kingdom are listed at a price 25% cheaper than it was five years earlier when it was priced at £30 million through Savills.
    An Eaton Mess – £22.5m for unrenovated 80 Eaton Square, SW1 – Eaton Square apartment for sale for £22.5 million through Chestertons in spite of needing complete renovation; Flats A & C, 80 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9AP, United Kingdom are listed at a price 25% cheaper than it was five years earlier when it was priced at £30 million through Savills.
  • A Faithfull Flat

    A Faithfull Flat

    Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million

    Marianne Faithfull has been recuperating in London after being treated for coronavirus in April, but even with her wealth the singer-songwriter is unlikely to be able to afford to return to where she lived at 29 Lennox Gardens in Knightsbridge for several years from 1967. An apartment that forms the majority part of that Grade II listed building is now for sale for the staggering sum of £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million).

     

    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    Marianne Faithfull pictured in her apartment in the building in 1967. She lived there with her then husband John Dunbar and their son, Nicholas, but left to live with Mick Jagger. At the time, she told ‘New Musical Express’: “My first move was to get a Rolling Stone as a boyfriend, I slept with three and decided the lead singer was best.”
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    Residents of Lennox Gardens have access to its private communal gardens. They were laid out on the site of the Prince’s Cricket Ground – the location of the famed Gentlemen of England vs. Australians and Players vs. Australians game in 1878. In 2017, we featured another £35 million flat overlooking this garden square also.

    Spread over three floors and extending to 5,280 square foot, the triplex is a complete contrast to the ordinary “white suburban bedroom” Faithfull imagined in her song The Ballad of Lucy Jordan. A far-cry from the drug riddled existence she subsequently slipped into, the ground floor, basement and first floor apartment includes a large formal drawing room, a family dining kitchen and a separate chef’s kitchen, a media and wine room, five bedroom suites and two courtyard gardens.

     

    The leasehold with share of freehold property – redeveloped by London Land Asset Management and designers 1508 London “on behalf of a private investor” – is offered by agents Strutt & Parker. The building was in recent years primarily home to the socialite-philanthropist Pia Hahn Marocco and its top floors offered to rent at a sum of £15,167 per month ($18,357, €16,966 or درهم67,416 per month).

     

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    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
    A Faithfull Flat – Triplex apartment in Knightsbridge building once home to singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull for sale for the astounding sum of £25 million – Strutt & Parker seek £24.75 million ($30 million, €27.7 million or درهم110 million) for Basement to First Floor Triplex, 29 Lennox Gardens, Brompton and Hans Town, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 0DE, United Kingdom.
  • A Rental Ruin

    A Rental Ruin

    Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler”

     

    Other than the legendary Roy Brooks, the only honest man in his game, estate agents will be optimistic about just about anything. A bit of damp: “no problem”; a nuclear power station next door: “positively charming” but John D. Wood & Co. truly take the biscuit with the marketing material for a property they are currently trying to let in chi-chi Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London.

     

    Sent to us by an eagle eyed reader, the £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week), 867 square foot three floor aforementioned house has conventional features such as a reception room, kitchen, three bedrooms and a bathroom. It also, rather unconventionally, has walls that haven’t even been painted and are just bare plaster. Pictures show also scruffily made-up beds propped up on wooden blocks, wiring and ageing televisions discarded on the floors and a garden littered with leaves.

     

    Of this strange offering, our reader remarked: “I saw this listing and thought it was a half-finished project and up for sale, but no, it’s a rental. Buy-to-let plainly says can’t afford to finish it, says sod it and tries to rent it out in a half-finished state and describe it as a ‘unique house packed with character and charm.’ I particularly like the exposed gas meter!”

     

    When he telephoned, a member of staff at John D. Wood told our reader: “The landlord would prefer to rent the property ‘as is’ and not do further work. It would be at least £1,000 per week if it were finished. He is happy for any tenant to paint and make further improvements.”

     

    In typical estate agent fashion, she optimistically added: “It does have a new boiler.”

     

    Roy Brooks – “A painfully honest estate agent”

    “Beyond any doubt the best copywriter for property advertising in the history of the British press,” Roy Brooks (died 1971) took a “puckish delight in telling the truth” about the houses he was asked to sell.

     
    A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week).

    An example of this Kings Road based eccentric’s advertisements read:

     

    “Do not be misled by the trim exterior of this modest period res with its dirty broken windows; all is not well with the inside. The décor of the nine rooms, some of which hangs inelegantly from the walls, is revolting. Not entirely devoid of plumbing, there is a pathetic kitchen and one cold tap. No bathroom, of course, but Chelsea has excellent public baths. Rain sadly drips through the ceiling on to the oilcloth. The pock-marked basement floor indicates a thriving community of woodworm, otherwise there is not much wrong with the property… Sacrifice £6,750.”

     

    Another announced:

     

    “Wanted: Someone with taste, means and a stomach strong enough to buy this erstwhile house of ill-repute in Pimlico. It is untouched by the 20th century as far as conveniences for even the basic human decencies are concerned. Although it reeks of damp or worse, the plaster is coming off the walls and daylight peeps through a hole in the roof, it is still habitable judging by the bed of rags, fag ends and empty bottles in one corner. Plenty of scope for the socially aspiring to express their decorative taste and get their abode in The Glossy, and nothing to stop them putting Westminster on their notepaper. Comprises 10 rather unpleasant rooms with slimy back yard, £4,650 Freehold. Tarted up, these houses make £15,000.”

     

    Justifying his reasoning for driving his Rolls-Royce from London to Russia loaded up with 1,000 pairs of shoes, Brooks – author of Brothel in Pimlico and Mud, Straw and Insults: Confessions of an Honest Estate Agent – glibly explained: “I take these for old times’ sake – Stalingrad and the defeat of the German hordes. Perhaps I could bring back in return some of their women engineers whose factories I saw prefabricating good homes by the thousands.”

     

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    A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week).A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week). A Rental Ruin – Chelsea estate agent optimistically markets an £850 per week house with unpainted walls and an exposed gas meter by announcing: “It does have a new boiler” – 62 Christchurch Street, Chelsea, London, SW3 4AR, United Kingdom – To rent through John D. Wood & Co. for £850 per week ($1,108, €955 or درهم4,070 per week).

  • The Finery of Fatland

    The Finery of Fatland

    Vast Greek Revival style Pennsylvania mansion for sale for 56% less than it was marketed for in 2014; it comes with a pub in the basement

     

    An extravagant and somewhat over the top estate in Pennsylvania is on sale for £2.96 million or 56% less than the £6.75 million sum it was listed for back in 2014.

     

    Extending to some 11,377 square foot and consisting of 7 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms, Greek Revival style ‘Fatland’ – originally known as ‘Vaux Hill’ and known as such once again since 1990 – in Lower Providence, Montgomery County dates to circa 1843 and stands on the site of an earlier stone farmhouse. That building served as the headquarters of General George Washington in 1777 and also was used by General Sir William Howe.

     

    Now set on a plot of just 11.29 acres, the Fatland Estate used to be significantly larger but was reduced by land sales to make way for an express highway, a housing development and 154 acres towards the expansion of the Valley Forge National Historical Park.

     

    The Finery of Fatland – The Fatland Estate or Vaux Hill, 1248 Pawlings Road, Lower Providence, Norristown, Phoenixville, Audubon, Montgomery County, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PA 19460, United States of America – For sale at a reduced price of £2.96 million ($3.95 million, €3.31 million or درهم14.50 million) through Keller Williams Realty Group
    Barbara Safford speaking at the time of the 2013 sale of the contents of ‘The Fatland Estate’

    The Finery of Fatland – The Fatland Estate or Vaux Hill, 1248 Pawlings Road, Lower Providence, Norristown, Phoenixville, Audubon, Montgomery County, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, PA 19460, United States of America – For sale at a reduced price of £2.96 million ($3.95 million, €3.31 million or درهم14.50 million) through Keller Williams Realty Group
    The house as previously furnished

     

    “Decorated in the rich French taste,” the house was stuffed to the brim with European antiques by an insurance tycoon named Robert Safford after he and his wife, Barbara, purchased it in 1990. The couple also altered ‘Fatland’s’ original asymmetrical composition with the addition of a west wing and end pavilion that mirrored the east wing and end pavilion and even added a pub to the building’s basement. After Mr Safford’s death in 2011, the property – which also includes an outdoor pool, tennis court and barn – was put up for sale in 2014 whilst separately, in 2013, Freeman’s auction house in Philadelphia held a sale of contents that netted £2.9 million.

     

    After three years on the market and now with a significantly reduced asking price, Terese Brittingham and Tom McCouch of Keller Williams Realty Group are the agents currently handling ‘The Fatland Estate’s’ listing.

     

    The Fatland Estate – The Numbers

     

    November 2017 – For sale at a reduced price of £2.96 million ($3.95 million, €3.31 million or درهم14.50 million) after a pending sale in June failed to complete through Keller Williams Realty Group.

     

    October 2016 – Relaunched to the market for £2.96 million ($3.95 million, €3.31 million or درهم14.50 million) through RE/MAX Elite.

     

    August 2016 – Reduced to £3.7 million ($5 million, €4.2 million or درهم13.4 million).

     

    February 2016 – Relaunched to the market for £5.248 million ($6.999 million, €5.866 million or درهم25.699 million).

     

    September 2014 – For sale for £6.747 million ($8.999 million, €7.542 million or درهم33.042 million) through Kurfiss Sotheby’s International Realty.

     

    July 1990 – Sold to Robert Safford and Barbara Harvey for £1.6 million ($2.1 million, €1.8 million or درهم7.7 million).

     

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  • A Bastard of a Basement

    A Bastard of a Basement

    Knightsbridge townhouse for sale for sum 11% lower than it sold for in 2011; it comes with a rather large hole in the garden that has been described as “almost as deep as the Führerbunker”

     

    To the poet and wit Henry Luttrell (1765 – 1861) “eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets” was his idea of heaven. Now, a very wealthy buyer has the opportunity to acquire what some might consider the very opposite of such with the sale of his former home – complete with a 4-storey hole in its garden – in Knightsbridge.

     

    Empty for many years and the subject of numerous critical articles about its dereliction in such titles as the Mirror and Daily Mail, Grade II listed 31 Brompton Square is on the market for £3 million less than it sold for in 2011. It was previously reportedly owned by the industrialist Lord Tanlaw and was also in the possession of the High Commission of Malaysia at some point.

     

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    Fraudster Achilleas Kallakis was undoubtedly the most controversial owner of the building

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    Philanthropists Dora and Mary de Beer (pictured with Esmond de Beer) were certainly more civilised residents

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    Baron Tanlaw of Tanlawhill reportedly owned the house for a period also

     

    Aside from being home to the philanthropist sisters Dora and Mary de Beer (owners of the house between 1934 and 1981) and the Conservative Party politician the Hon. Michael Astor in addition, most controversially the property was bought by the now jailed businessman Achilleas Kallakis in the mid 2000s.

     

    Kallakis – who in spite of demanding he be called ‘His Excellency’ and ‘The Don’ was actually simply “Britain’s biggest mortgage fraudster” – began work on a scheme to create what he termed a “pleasure palace” at 31 Brompton Square in 2005. He employed contractors to dig four levels down beneath what had been a pretty garden and commenced both authorised and unauthorised works to create what could still ultimately become a 22,000 square foot, 8-floor “trophy home.”

     

    Construction stopped in 2008 after Kallakis’ arrest and in 2011, 31 Brompton Square was sold for £8 million more than sought to a Virgin Islands based company by receivers acting for Barclays Wealth. Said by locals to actually be owned at that time by a Dubai based businessman named Jonathan Hart, further planning schemes were submitted in October 2016 and now agents Savills seek £25 million for the unfinished building.

     

    Of the sale, one near neighbour told The Steeple Times:

     

    “This bastard of a basement has blighted this area of Knightsbridge for far too long.”

     

    “We have feared subsidence might cause the hole to cave in since 2005 and now hope a new owner will rectify the mess left by the conman Kallakis. We simply want to be able to live out our years in peace and would like a nice, quiet family rather than a brash billionaire be the purchasers.”

     

    31 Brompton Square – The Numbers

     

    September 2017 – For sale for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million).

     

    June 2016 – Predicted to be worth £50 million ($67.8 million, €56.9 million or درهم249 million) if iceberg extension were to be completed.

     

    March 2011 – Sold for £28 million ($38 million, €31.9 million or درهم139.5 million) after a bidding war on an asking price of £20 million ($27.1 million, €22.7 million or درهم99.6 million).

     

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    An aerial view of the giant hole behind 31 Brompton Square

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    A closer view of the dormant site

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    The front elevation of 31 Brompton Square

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    A proposed floor plan for the building

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    A CGI image of a proposed design for a reception room within the existing building

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    A CGI image of a proposed design for a reception space in the proposed extension of the house

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    A CGI image of a proposed design for a reception space backing onto the garden

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    A CGI image of a proposed design for a swimming pool within the extension

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    A CGI image of the proposed garden

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    Another view of the space

    A Bastard of a Basement – 31 Brompton Square, Knightsbridge, London, SW3 2AE, United Kingdom – For sale through Savills for £25 million ($33.9 million, €28.4 million or درهم125 million) – Formerly owned by now jailed fraudster Achilleas Kallakis and also by Jonathan Hart, Lord Tanlow, the Hon. Michael Astor, Dora and Mary de Beer and Henry Luttrell.
    A drawing of the proposed redevelopment

  • A Castle for £130k

    A Castle for £130k

    Scottish castle on sale for just £130,000; it comes without a roof and is located near the Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeenshire

    A castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland is for sale for £130,000 ($168,000, €143,000 or درهم616,000) in spite of being nothing other than a roofless shell.

     

    Reduced in price from £150,000 ($193,000, €165,000 or درهم710,000) and dating to 1565, Knockhall Castle in the coastal village of Newburgh, near Aberdeen is described as “having been in the current owner’s family for hundreds of years” and was accidentally burnt to the ground by Jamie Fleming, “a servant fool” of then owners the Udny of that Ilk family, in 1734.

    Presented in “stabilised” condition, the B-listed building stands on a small plot accessed by a private road. It is close to the Trump International Golf Links course at Balmedie and Forvie Sands, a designated nature conservation area populated by seals.

    Savills have the listing and market the structure as “a blank canvas for someone to develop the building’s full potential as a spectacular family home or business.”

    A Castle for £130k – Knockhall Castle, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, AB41 6AD, United Kingdom – For sale for £130,000 ($168,000, €143,000 or درهم616,000) through Savills – In need of complete renovation and currently a roofless shell.  

    Of this fixer-upper, in which James VI is reported to have stayed in July 1589, Historic Scotland add:

     

    “Knockhall Castle, in the parish of Foveran, is situated near the mouth of the river Ythan and was probably built in 1565 as an L plan towerhouse of three stories and an attic with a projecting staircase tower on its northside. The tower does not have a parapet and the gables have skews rather than crowsteps. To the south of the castle there was an enclosed courtyard, but all that now remains of this is a fragmentary round tower at the south east angle of the enclosure which incorporated a dovecot on its upper level. The tower has undergone significant alteration, probably in the second quarter of the 17th century.”

    “The tower is lit by large rectangular windows in the south and east walls. These are arranged more or less symmetrically and their raised margins suggest they are insertions dating to the mid 17th century. The earlier windows which have survived have a typical roll moulding of mid 16th century type, and some appear to have had gunloops in their sills. The basement is pierced by a number of wide-mouthed gunloops but also has some fairly large windows which have the raised margins of the 17th century windows.”

    “The entrance is in the re-entrant angle and the lintel of the door is inscribed with the date 1565. Above this are two empty heraldic panels and at eaves level there is a projecting stone shelf which appears to have been intended to shed water away from the entrance doorway. The doorway gives access to a corridor running the length of the building and leads to the main stair. Entered off the corridor, on the left, is the kitchen, complete with fireplace, sink and drain. The main block contains a large cellar also with a sink and drain. Both spaces are vaulted although that over the kitchen has collapsed.”

    “The circular stair is wide and provides access both to the principal upper floors in the main block and to those in the wing. The tower is externally complete and in there is often sufficient evidence for a tower to be restored for modern occupation without detracting from its historic significance.”

    “The planning of this tower, with a large stair serving the two wings, and with ample light through the large rectangular windows, would also make its adaptive re-use possible.”

    “It should be noted that there is significant potential for associated archaeology surrounding the tower. In schemes of adaptive re-use, archaeology is an important issue to be addressed.”

  • Gothic Grandeur

    Gothic Grandeur

    Oxford’s only Strawberry Hill Gothic house for £2.15 million in spite of needing complete renovation

     

    A house built in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style in Oxford has gone on sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) in spite of needing complete renovation.

     

    Constructed circa 1840 – 1850 on the site of an earlier house, The Priory in Iffley Village has a battlemented stuccoed front on rubble with 19th century Gothic traceried windows, a crenelated parapet and a Welsh slate mansard roof. It is described as being Oxford’s only example of this flamboyant style of architecture and was at one point run as a school run by Ursuline nuns.

     

    Grade II listed since 1972, the 4,817 square foot property includes 6 reception rooms, a first floor kitchen, 6 bedrooms and 4 basement rooms but just 1 bathroom. It stands on a private, mature plot of 0.93 acres adjoining the Hawkwell House Hotel and is offered by agents Butler Sherborn.

     

    Gothic Grandeur – The Priory, Church Way, Iffley Village, Oxford, OX4 4EB – For sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) through Butler SherbornGothic Grandeur – The Priory, Church Way, Iffley Village, Oxford, OX4 4EB – For sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) through Butler SherbornGothic Grandeur – The Priory, Church Way, Iffley Village, Oxford, OX4 4EB – For sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) through Butler Sherborn Gothic Grandeur – The Priory, Church Way, Iffley Village, Oxford, OX4 4EB – For sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) through Butler SherbornGothic Grandeur – The Priory, Church Way, Iffley Village, Oxford, OX4 4EB – For sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) through Butler Sherborn Gothic Grandeur – The Priory, Church Way, Iffley Village, Oxford, OX4 4EB – For sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) through Butler Sherborn Gothic Grandeur – The Priory, Church Way, Iffley Village, Oxford, OX4 4EB – For sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) through Butler SherbornGothic Grandeur – The Priory, Church Way, Iffley Village, Oxford, OX4 4EB – For sale for £2.15 million ($2.80 million, €2.43 million or درهم10.29 million) through Butler Sherborn

  • Virgin Virginia

    Virgin Virginia

    Unrestored Virginia estate owned by the same family since 1740 for sale for the first time ever

     

    A 410.18-acre estate in Virginia that has been owned by the same family since 1740 has gone on sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million).

     

    Completely unaltered and on the National Register of Historic Places, Spring Grove in Milford, Caroline County is listed as a “fine example of Italianate architecture”. It centres around a residence that dates to 1856, extends to around 12,000 square foot and includes 26 rooms. There are said to be 8 bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms and though the building is currently “not livable, with the exception of a small basement apartment”, selling agents Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International Realty describe it as “an architectural treasure ideal for a buyer seeking an authentic restoration project”.

     

    Owned by the DeJarnette family, Huguenot emigrants to Virginia, the current house is the third property to stand on the site. It was built by Daniel Coleman DeJarnette (1822 – 1881), a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and is now being sold by his descendants.

     

    Virgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International Realty Virgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International RealtyVirgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International RealtyVirgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International RealtyVirgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International Realty Virgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International RealtyVirgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International Realty Virgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International RealtyVirgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International RealtyVirgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International Realty Virgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International RealtyVirgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International Realty Virgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International Realty Virgin Virginia – Spring Grove, 19370 Mattaponi Trl, Oak Corner, Milford, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia, VA 22514 – For sale for £1.53 million ($1.95 million, €1.75 million or درهم7.16 million) through Frank Hardy Sotheby’s International Realty

  • Belgravia in Bloom

    Belgravia in Bloom

    Grand Belgravia apartment – complete with a garden that wouldn’t look out of place at the Chelsea Flower Show – for sale

     

    As thousands of garden lovers visit the Chelsea Flower Show this week, an individual with £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) to spare could acquire a more permanent horticultural delight in the form of a ground and basement maisonette in nearby Belgravia.

     

    Flat 1 at 57 Eaton Place provides not only 3,497 square foot – with 3 reception rooms, 3 bedroom suites and staff accommodation – but also a courtyard and terrace garden that selling agent Louise Hewlett describes as giving a “country outlook in an urban Belgravia traditional white stucco building”.

     

    The flat is held on a lease of 108 years and a service charge of £11,689 ($15,187, €13,577 or درهم55,771) is payable annually.

     

    Belgravia in Bloom – Flat 1, 57 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8BN, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) through Louise Hewlett – Chelsea Flower Show Belgravia in Bloom – Flat 1, 57 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8BN, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) through Louise Hewlett – Chelsea Flower ShowBelgravia in Bloom – Flat 1, 57 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8BN, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) through Louise Hewlett – Chelsea Flower Show Belgravia in Bloom – Flat 1, 57 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8BN, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) through Louise Hewlett – Chelsea Flower ShowBelgravia in Bloom – Flat 1, 57 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8BN, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) through Louise Hewlett – Chelsea Flower ShowBelgravia in Bloom – Flat 1, 57 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8BN, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) through Louise Hewlett – Chelsea Flower Show Belgravia in Bloom – Flat 1, 57 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8BN, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) through Louise Hewlett – Chelsea Flower Show Belgravia in Bloom – Flat 1, 57 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8BN, United Kingdom – For sale for £8.95 million ($11.63 million, €10.39 million or درهم42.71 million) through Louise Hewlett – Chelsea Flower Show

  • Basement It Like Beckham

    Basement It Like Beckham

    Former Algerian Embassy in Holland Park for sale for £30 million; the detached stucco house needs complete renovation and counts David and Victoria Beckham as neighbours

     

    The former Embassy of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria in Holland Park, W11 has just been placed for sale for the sum of £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million).

     

    Offered by estate agent Anthony Sharp, the 9,490 square foot, Grade II listed detached stucco house includes accommodation over five floors and was built in 1862. One of remaining Italianate villas designed by brothers Francis and William Radford, 54 Holland Park is described as being “in need of full modernisation” and as having “scope to create a magnificent family home”.

     

    The buyer will count David and Victoria Beckham as near neighbours. They paid £31.5 million ($41.1 million, €36.6 million or درهم150.9 million) for 23 Holland Park in 2013 and finally took up residence there in July 2016 after completing an £8 million ($10.4 million, €9.3 million or درهم38.3 million) renovation that included, amongst other things, a vast subterranean redevelopment.

     

    Basement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony Sharp Basement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony SharpBasement It Like Beckham – Former Embassy of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, 54 Holland Park, London, W11 3RS – For sale for £30 million ($39.1 million, €34.9 million or درهم143.7 million) through Anthony Sharp