Suitable London pad for the dapper gent

[Cooked]

I'm sure some of you noticed this in the press last week, but for those who didn't and are seeking a pied a terre with a bit of sartorial history attached, the former London home of Beau Brummell and Anthony Eden is up for sale. Details - http://homesandproperty.zoopla.co.uk/fo ... paign=sale

[NJS]

According to Fribourg & Treyer´s snuff accounts, Brummell did not seem to live there for long or very much. It just happens to be one of his addresses that they fixed on for the plaque. Interestingly, there is another ´´two plaque´´ house for sale´- in The Grove, Highgate: S T Coleridge and J B Priestley lived there.
NJS

[culverwood]

At almost 9,000,000 GBP did you mean dapper oligarch.

[NJS]

At almost 9,000,000 GBP did you mean dapper oligarch.

The Highgate house is in a similar bracket.
NJS

[pur_sang]

very nicely done. love the bathrooms.

a good balance between modern and traditional, without being boring and enough uniqueness about it.

[NJS]

The Highgate house has better views, down across Fitzroy Park to Parliament Hill Fields and London beyond. Moreover, I should not think that 4 Chesterfield Street hasmuch left about it that Brummell would remember...

[culverwood]

For me the Chesterfield Street house has a small sitting room, dining room and kitchen and bedrooms which are too large and has to many bathrooms.

My daughter has a similar Georgian town house and the narrowness of the door plus one window style causes limitations but then she did not pay 9,000,000 GPB.

I agree the Highgate house being sold by Kate Moss is an altogether superior place to live.

[NJS]

Gosh, I hadn´t realized that it had even been sold to Kate Moss. Here is a picture from Flicker:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulitzer/6903725071/

[Cooked]

Gosh lucky Kate - I much prefer the Highgate house too. She will be a neighbour there, I believe, of Sting. I couldn't imagine living around Mayfair in any case; all your neighbours would be gentleman's clubs, embassies or hedge funds, not a real neighbourhood.

[Cooked]

For me the Chesterfield Street house has a small sitting room, dining room and kitchen and bedrooms which are too large and has to many bathrooms.

My daughter has a similar Georgian town house and the narrowness of the door plus one window style causes limitations but then she did not pay 9,000,000 GPB.

I agree the Highgate house being sold by Kate Moss is an altogether superior place to live.

I think if you like old houses (as I do) you'll put up with these sort of limitations. It's odd to me how people fall in love with and buy lovely old places, only then to do them up and modernise them. If you want a modern house why not just buy one to begin with, or better yet, build your own?

[hectorm]

I couldn't imagine living around Mayfair in any case; all your neighbours would be gentleman's clubs, embassies or hedge funds, not a real neighbourhood.

Of course Mayfair is a real neighbourhood. It has plenty of residential space still (granted, at a price). Actually, measured in terms of walkability and daily access to everything good in life, is one of the most desirable areas a single gentleman can think of.

[NJS]

I couldn't imagine living around Mayfair in any case; all your neighbours would be gentleman's clubs, embassies or hedge funds, not a real neighbourhood.

Of course Mayfair is a real neighbourhood. It has plenty of residential space still (granted, at a price). Actually, measured in terms of walkability and daily access to everything good in life, is one of the most desirable areas a single gentleman can think of.

St James´s is livelier and, strangely, cheaper. You can still buy a penthouse flat in St James´s Square for a fraction of the cost of Brummell´s house. It is also interesting to reflect that neither Coleridge nor Brummell actually owned these properties...indeed, Coleridge was rather indigent and was accommodated by a surgeon, called Gillman, who tried to help him break his opium habit.