Tag: house

  • Handeling a house

    Handeling a house

    One of Britain’s finest Queen Anne residences comes to the market

     

    On the market for the first time in 600 years, Grade I listed Malmesbury House in Salisbury, Wiltshire has rightly been described as a “jewel box” of a house. (more…)

  • A dictator’s dream

    A dictator’s dream

    50,000 square foot Utah mansion that would suit an exiled dictator or lottery lout

     

    Money and taste don’t necessarily go together and no more is this rule proven than in a $30 million (£18 million) Utah mansion (more…)

  • Pottery and drama

    Pottery and drama

    £3 million castle once owned by the Wedgewood family comes to the market

     

    Robin MacDonald, the current owner of Caverswall Castle in Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire is a man once described as “having it all”. He’s also a man who plainly attracts drama and with the sale of his castle, a new chapter looms for his Grade I listed, moated home. (more…)

  • A Prodigy house

    A Prodigy house

    A country seat with a prodigious history

     

    Historic Brereton Hall in Brereton, Cheshire is a fine Elizabethan country house but one that has been sadly separated from much of its original estate. (more…)

  • A classic English home

    A classic English home

    A former rectory that truly is a classic English home

     

    Old rectories and vicarages are the things of novels: Jeffrey Archer lives in one near Cambridge that was previously the home of the poet Rupert Brooke and Joanna Trollope waxes lyrical about them regularly. (more…)

  • Russians, rock stars and royalty

    Russians, rock stars and royalty

    A £6 million mews house on the site of Henry VIII’s manor house

     

    Cheyne Walk in Chelsea has long been a favourite address of Russians, rock stars and royalty. Cheyne Mews, situated to the rear of it, is built on the site of King Henry VIII’s manor house and with the sale of a £5,950,000 mews house there, a purchaser has the opportunity to acquire what agents Chesterton Humberts describe as a “discreet country cottage in the heart of Chelsea”. (more…)

  • A house that hasn’t sold in 14 years

    A house that hasn’t sold in 14 years

    ‘Cotswold style’ mansion dramatically reduced in price after 14 years on the market

     

    Americans love all things British and they especially love to replicate our architecture. In the Northern Californian town of Hillsborough, a fine example is a 35,000 square foot mansion named The Tobin Clark Estate. (more…)

  • A Front and a half

    A Front and a half

    A coastal estate in a spectacular setting on the White Cliffs of Dover

     

    Known as The South Foreland Estate, an 11.5-acre parcel of land overlooking the English Channel at The Front, St Margaret’s Bay in Kent includes a main house, three further residences and a decommissioned lighthouse that was used in a film starring Oliver Reed. (more…)

  • Seeing Twilight

    Seeing Twilight

    Robert Pattinson sells his Los Feliz Hills home

     

    Given the fortune he made from Twilight and Harry Potter, actor Robert Pattinson’s starter home was never going to be basic. London born Pattinson, whose uncle was chairman of Coys of Kensington, bought 2666 Aberdeen Avenue from retired basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for £3.9 million ($6.275 million) in September. He lived there with his on-off actress girlfriend Kristin Stewart. (more…)

  • Harry’s House of Secrets

    Harry’s House of Secrets

    ‘Harry Potter’ director Chris Columbus sells up in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights

     

    Harry Potter director Chris Columbus is selling his £8,128,000 ($12,995,000) Italianate style San Francisco home. (more…)