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É THE price of the Sussex waterside retreat where movie megastar Vivien Leigh lived after her divorce from Sir Laurence Olivier has been slashed. Tickerage Mill in Sussex was originally put up for sale in April at Homes £3.5 million but despite its glittering Hollywood heritage, there were no takers. It is now going back on the Music legend market for £2.15 million. gossip The acclaimed British stage and on the move screen actress, who died in 1967, By Amira Hashish GRAMMY award-winning will be forever remembered as musician John Legend and his Scarlett O’Hara to Clark Gable’s Got some gossip? model wife Chrissy Teigen, Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, PA Tweet @amiranews right, are selling their Los right, the 1939 romantic screen epic. Princess Margaret and John Gielgud Angeles home, above, for When Leigh and Olivier wed, they were regular guests at her five- £1.23 million. became one of Britain’s most bedroom home. The current owners For halcyon days The Sixties-built house in glamorous couples. She bought the moved in and modernised the É THE Halcyon in Holland Park was, the Hollywood Hills has 17th-century Grade II-listed hideaway property in 2005. until just a few years ago, a boutique three bedrooms, one of for £20,000 in 1961, a year after their hotel frequented by stars including which the singer uses as a marriage ended. Winston Churchill, O See homesandproperty.co.uk/viv Mick Jagger, Liam Gallagher, Patsy studio. It is where he wrote and Kensit, Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, recorded several of the tracks on John Cleese, Yoko Ono, Naomi his latest album, Love in the Future. Campbell and Geri Halliwell, below. There’s a hot tub in the pretty, The Italianate villa now houses 12 private garden but Legend wants apartments including the swanky more space. “We’re ready to expand penthouse, above, with four en suite a bit, and would love the twice-as-big bedrooms, which is listed with version of this place,” he says. “We Crayson for £9.25 million. One for love the feel of this home.” luxe lovers, it has its own direct lift The Asian-influenced property, access and a full-time porter. which featured on Oprah Winfrey’s The 3,700sq ft apartment includes TV show Oprah Prime, is on the a very generously sized living and market with Sotheby’s International dining room — the ideal space for a Realty. For more details, visit

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É A CONVERTED church, far right, and stained-glass windows, are which doubles up as a TV and film set juxtaposed with eccentric is for sale in Uxbridge. detail including a car and The unusual property has provided motorbike hanging off the a backdrop to programmes such as living room wall. Lewis, currently airing on ITV on A console table, made from Fridays, starring Laurence Fox, right, one half of the original pulpit, and Kevin Whately. adorns a false wall that hides a Owner Angel Guerra bought the storage space. For sale with building in 1999 and has spent years Chewton Rose, this is a rare turning it into an eclectic, four- find. Price on application. bedroom detached house.

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Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with 20,000 new homes Southside with style The trailblazers this week move into the first homes to be finished in the 500-acre Nine Elms district, reports David Spittles

ITH characteristic projects either under way or imminent. bravura, Mayor Boris The future shape and character of this Johnson has called the neighbourhood is much more defined, From £449,000: renewal under way at though critics say the masterplan lacks homes at Nine Nine Elms in Battersea architectural cohesion, with individu- Elms Point, a “theW greatest transformational story in alistic buildings competing with each Barratt scheme the world’s greatest city”. other rather than working together. launching next Certainly the pace of change at this By designating Nine Elms an “oppor- week. Near former industrial wasteland bounded tunity area”, the Mayor fast-tracked the Vauxhall Cross, it by the Thames has been faster than planning system. Land swallowed up will be close to a anyone dared imagine three years ago by factory sheds and gas holders has new Tube station when the first diggers rolled into action been reclassified to residential and at Riverlight, the first of the “new-era” commercial use, boosting its value and apartment schemes to be launched — handing developers a Lottery win. and now the first to be completed. O What to expect: 20,000 new homes Next week, buyers who reserved flats are coming to a Zone 1 area bigger off-plan in 2011 take possession of their than Hyde Park and spanning a mile homes. It was a bold decision for them and a half of riverbank. There will be to invest in a raw, Tube-starved district. two new Tube stations and a new The US State Department had already pedestrian and cycle bridge across made the extraordinary decision to the Thames to Pimlico. move to Nine Elms from Mayfair, but Battersea Power Station was derelict, THE YANKS ARE COMING and Malaysian tycoons had not even THE US EMBASSY come near. Yet the power station was This is almost a surreal relocation to key to regenerating the area. place the European HQ for the world’s Sought after: Those early buyers are in for a feast of greatest superpower. Yet other diplo- apartments change, both in domestic architecture matic missions have been swift to follow within Battersea and cultural collaborations. A new arts suit. The Dutch Embassy is coming to Power Station venue, StudioRCA, is set to become the Nine Elms and the Chinese government first of which will be ready in 2016. Two itself fetch a main cultural hub for the rapidly matur- has shortlisted the area. Blue chip cor- phases of apartments sold instantly and premium. New- ing Nine Elms district. A partnership porations are likely to follow, which is the third phase of homes, a series of phase studios between the Royal College of Art and boosting local investment appeal. dramatic, titanium-clad blocks by LA- start at £495,000 developer St James, it precedes the Battersea property values have risen based starchitect Frank Gehry, has just arrival of Damien Hirst’s Newport Street with astonishing speed and in some been unveiled, with prices starting at Gallery in nearby Vauxhall. areas have more than doubled. How- £495,000 for a studio and £3.2 million Designed by One Hyde Park architects ever, it is feared an oversupply of homes for a four-bedroom townhouse. Call 020 Rogers Stirk Harbour, Riverlight has six could cause prices to stagnate. 7501 0678. Flats in the iconic power waterfront pavilions with 813 homes, Kieran Chalker was one of the first to station have sold for premium prices reached via glass-walled lifts on the move across the river with his property — £800,000 for a studio. building’s exterior. Only a few flats company Garton Jones, based in Chel- “We could have opted for an entirely remain for sale, priced from £800,000. sea and Westminster. They opened a residential scheme and made three Call 020 7870 9620. branch on Albert Embankment. times as much money,” says Rob Tinck- If you want to buy in Nine Elms today “Already there was a flow of buyers nell, chief executive of Battersea Power you have far more choice than the 2011 crossing the Thames to live in new Station Development Company. “But pioneers — but don’t get carried away developments on the south bank, so it we chose to make it a place with a mix by the dazzling off-plan brochures. seemed a no-brainer,” he says. of uses because we believe it should be Buyers should scrutinise the floor plans “Nowhere else in London is there a place-making — a diverse community and walk the site. It’s not all about price project of such scale and ambition. It with authenticity and character.” — it’s about exactly what you get for is bringing a new world for residents. Nine Elms is not an overnight trans- your money, and with so much choice “Nine Elms is going to be a giant com- formation. Those buying off-plan homes you can compare deals. mercial district too, far bigger than will have to wait, with 15 years to com- Look at the design quality, materials Canary Wharf, with theatres, libraries, pletion. It lies between Vauxhall and and the spec. The relative size of flats hotels, private members clubs and Chelsea Bridges, and between the may be important but consider the leisure facilities.” Thames and Wandsworth Road. A rail- views, the service charges, likely long- way line cuts through it, giving rise to term value and easily accessible com- HOMES WITHIN A LANDMARK development on the “wrong side of the From £495,000: munity extras, such as bookable BATTERSEA POWER STATION tracks”. It takes the best part of 30 min- starchitect Frank cinema suites, on-site gyms, parking, The power station, positioned at the utes to walk along Nine Elms Lane from Gehry’s series of security and landscaped space. area’s commercial heart or “town Vauxhall Cross, currently a chaotic, dramatic blocks centre”, is capturing the imagination of traffic-clogged swirl, past the power by the power OPPORTUNITY AREA home buyers who have grown up with station and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home station, with ONE NINE ELMS this sensational urban landmark. to the western end of the regeneration studios, bigger This development of 437 flats and a five- Its £8 billion transformation will pro- area, next to Battersea Park. apartments and star hotel includes 56-storey City Tower. vide 3,500,000sq ft of shops, offices and Some people want to be in the power townhouses It is the latest launch and one of 12 restaurants as well as 4,000 homes, the station and nowhere else, while others EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 7 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property

Latest launch: One Nine Elms, with 437 ﬂats, will include a 56-storey tower and is one of a dozen local projects either under way or imminent

Prime position: green roofs and spectacular views at Embassy Gardens, which will contain the new US Embassy

Ariel view: how the completed Nine Elms Zone is set to look

From £800,000: only a few Riverlight apartments remain prefer a smaller site, or a home nearer with each new phase. Since 2011, the various developments including the US complex. Nine Elms Point, a Barratt the surroundings are set to change here, the Tube. Nine Elms will be a collection average value of a home here has Embassy will be the pedestrian spine of development of 737 homes launching too. Call CBRE on 020 7182 2477. of high-rise and low-rise neighbour- jumped from about £800 to £1,400 per the new district. Many buyers are likely next week, is being built alongside the hoods, and they won’t suit everyone. square foot, or more than £2,000 a to be swayed by proximity to one of the other Tube station, a stone’s throw from O Next week: Anatomy of Nine Elms. “Flipping” sales are already appear- square foot for river-facing penthouses. two new Northern line stations, one of Vauxhall Cross. Prices start at £449,000, Where to buy? The lowdown on all the ing, and developers are raising prices A new linear park linking the river and which will be within the power station reflecting the grittier location, though developments. 8 WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD

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HE average price of a home PART 4: Court Road, becoming more coveted in the Tottenham Court places to live. Rathbone Square is a Road area 10 years ago was PADDINGTON TO LIVERPOOL STREET new address on the site of a former £311,000. Today it is Royal Mail depot moments from the £1,365,326. This staggering Crossrail station. Designed by T439 per cent price increase, among the renowned architect Ken Shuttleworth, highest in London over the decade, is it creates a new garden square for in no small way due to the new Cross- Fitzrovia, with 142 high-quality homes rail station coming to the area. plus offices. Cheaper flats have already Six new stations being built in central sold. Two-bedroom apartments start London are all causing property ripples at £2,975,000. Call 020 7580 1100. ahead of the line opening in 2018. Unlike Crossrail Other projects include 81 Dean more far-flung areas along the route, Street — 18 apartments, two with lavish where the main benefit is reduced New central London showpiece stations will rooftop terraces, plus concierge serv- journey times to the centre, in central ices provided by Soho Hotel. Call CBRE London it is all about the changes and create hotspots for home buyers seeking a on 020 7420 3050. improvements to neighbourhoods close good property investment, says David Spittles Soho is in danger of becoming posh to the stations — and the shorter travel- but is unlikely to lose its distinctive ling time to Heathrow airport and character as a 24-hour district that never Canary Wharf. closes. Yet there are quiet corners, too, Crossrail is the first transport project and Soho is a genuine “village”, with a in the UK that sets out to comprehen- network of small shopkeepers, traders sively dovetail with other develop- and entrepreneurs. Flats dominate. ments above and alongside stations. About £500,000 is the entry price, Showpiece stations at Paddington, perhaps less for ex-local authority Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, homes, always in demand. Farringdon, Liverpool Street and There are only a few freehold houses Whitechapel will be at the heart of — check out the early 18th-century gems much bigger commercial zones. There on Meard Street. A period townhouse is also enormous investment going into in Dean Street is up for sale, price the public realm — pedestrianisation, £5 million. Call estate agent GLP on 020 bike docks, better streetscaping, the 7734 4062. Gardens are scarce, meaning creation of squares, gardens and parks roof terraces add greatly to value. — within more than half a mile of the new stations, helping to knit them into FARRINGDON old areas, to the benefit of both. Crossrail cements Farringdon’s rise to Property analyst GVA estimates Cross- fashionability. Located between the rail will help trigger about 57,000 new West End and City, it is currently one of homes and 40 million square feet of London’s quieter mainline stations. But commercial space along the route. In by 2018 it will be Britain’s busiest, with central London, veteran property com- a sevenfold increase in commuters and panies such as Grosvenor are among 140 trains per hour passing through. those using their “place-making” exper- Integrated: Bond Street Crossrail station, at the heart of a wider commercial zone Farringdon will be the single London tise to give neighbourhoods a facelift. terminus with integrated north-south & King. In adjacent Duke Street, a listed Street will have 92 flats. This eastern end (of the river) and east-west routes; the BOND STREET terrace has been refurbished to create of Oxford Street has been the poor rela- only one allowing passengers to The showpiece Bond Street Crossrail 16 rental flats, fashion boutiques and tion, with discount fashion and elec- board Crossrail, Thameslink and Shenfield station is part of a 1.3-acre project eateries. Call 020 7312 6449. tronics stores setting the tone, but the Tube trains. It will provide direct bringing flats, offices and shops above patch is smartening up fast, with Soho, links to Gatwick, Heathrow, new ticket halls in Hanover Square and TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury, the three Luton and London City air- Davies Street. Grosvenor’s North May- The £1 billion station upgrade is the neighbourhoods ringing Tottenham ports as well as Eurostar serv- fair focus has already turned the Vic- biggest transport investment in the torian electricity substation at Brown West End for decades. The number of HOW CROSSRAIL WILL CUT JOURNEY TIMES Reading Inner London Abbey Hart Gardens into a stunning 50-seat passengers using the station on a daily (IN MINUTES) TO CANARY WHARF Heathrow Wood pavilion-style café, with monthly food basis will jump from 150,000 to markets on site. A new glazed lift makes 200,000, while the immediate vicinity Paddington Tottenham CourtRoad Liverpool Street the gardens visible and accessible. will be transformed by a public plaza 23 to 17 20 to 12 19 to 6 Opposite the substation, the new Art linking the station to Centre Point, the Deco-style Beaumont Hotel has been iconic Sixties office tower that is being developed by Grosvenor in partnership converted into 82 luxury flats. Another Bond Street Farringdon Source: Hamptons with top London restaurateurs Corbin scheme above a new ticket hall in Dean 16 to 13 24 to 8 International

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Renaissance: NEW STATIONS IN 65 Duke Street in CENTRAL LONDON Mayfair, a listed terrace, has been refurbished by the Grosvenor Estate to create 16 rental ﬂats, boutiques and eateries. Call 020 7312 6449 Bond Street: project brings offices, STATION STORY ﬂats and shops above new ticket halls PADDINGTON Paddington’s new Crossrail station will allow bankers and lawyers to live in west London while enjoying a painless 17-minute commute to Canary Wharf. Once undesirable, the Paddington area has turned the corner in terms of residential status. Bustling Praed Street, the main Tottenham Court Road: investment of commercial drag, is improving, while £1 billion, West End’s biggest in years seedy B&Bs and backpacker hotels are becoming boutique flats. Many travellers who pass through the station are unaware of revitalised Paddington canal basin, once a closed-off industrial zone but now a convivial “urban quarter” of homes, shops, offices and waterfront bars and brasseries. Some say it lacks the vitality of neighbouring Bayswater or the charm of Little Venice, but it has plenty of devotees. The area is on the periphery of core central London, the boundary of the congestion charge zone, but within comfortable walking distance of Marylebone, Farringdon: passenger boom will Marble Arch and Hyde Park. turn it into Britain’s busiest rail hub Paddington Exchange, butting up against busy Harrow Road, is part of ices at St Pancras and Brighton on the sleek new skyscrapers are rising among the 80-acre canalside district and south coast. ‘This is the first transport the office towers. Principal Tower is offers 123 flats in elegant, high-rise Clerkenwell is seen as a media village project in the UK to set out the first residential skyscraper to be blocks with communal roof terraces. but being so close to the City it also totally designed, inside and out, by Prices from £965,000. Call 020 3376 attracts bachelor bankers and lawyers. to dovetail with other Foster + Partners. It has 243 flats and a 6409. Resales start at £400,000. The coming transport bonus has trig- developments above and big emphasis on high-quality communal Locally, two-bedroom flats are in gered corporate relocations, Merrill space, including a spectacular entrance the £800,000 to £2 million range, Lynch among them, and spurred rede- alongside stations’ lobby. There are 24-hour concierge and houses typically cost between velopment of ancient Bart’s Hospital services, private cinema, a club and £2.5 million and £6 million. into Barts Square, a new quarter that LIVERPOOL STREET lounge for business meetings or enter- “There’s been a price correction keeps the medieval street plan intact, The station is on the eastern edge of the taining, a lap pool, fitness centre and Liverpool Street: Crossrail station is following an overzealous spring with 235 homes priced from £770,000. City, a solidly commercial district where underground parking. Prices from sparking residential development market,” says Tom Folland of estate Call 020 7726 8995. homes are thin on the ground. However, £778,000. Call 020 3130 5101. agents Hamptons International.

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OUTURE milliner Laura Apsit Livens, 25, is astonished. “I never thought I would be so busy,” she says of her Mayfair shop, a surreal, tiny half-stair- case in Duke Street, North Mayfair. It’s Jazzing up Mayfair aC riot of colour, original shapes, bowlers, feather creations, panamas and helmets. Spurred byby the newnew BondBond StreetStreet Crossrail stastation,tion landlorlandlordd Her clients include singers Paloma Faith, Rita Ora and Jessie J, along with the Duchess of West- Grosvenor is investing £785 million, reports Liz Hoggard minster. London College of Fashion graduate Livens is one of the new-look retailers jazzing up North Mayfair, as major local landlord, Grosvenor, shakes up what was once a dull, anonymous part of its estate with a £785 million regeneration programme. The move has been prompted by Crossrail, which is building a new Bond Street station nearby. Founded in 1677, Grosvenor controls about 30 per cent of the wider Mayfair area. When the new station opens in 2018, trimming 13 minutes off the journey to Canary Wharf, the estate hopes to have established a strong identity for North Mayfair. Up to 220,000 passengers a day are expected to use the station, and there will be 24 trains an hour at peak times in each direction. A total 300,000sq ft of retail, commercial and residential space has been approved above the eastern ticket hall in Hanover Street, while Craig McWilliam, executive director of Grosvenor’s London estate, says it is creating more rental flats because “we Take a break: Fernandez & Wells is the trendy want people to live and work in the area”. There in-store café at The Duke Street Emporium are 28 flats at 65 Duke Street and 62 Green Street

and about 500 rented properties across the estate. brands are very much encouraged. The Duke However, homes to buy under £1 million are rare, Street Emporium, a two-storey concept store by and a new apartment block being built at the Jigsaw and The Shop at Bluebird, offers interna- Audley Square car park site is a few years away tional womenswear, menswear, beauty and life- from completion. style brands, plus an in-store Fernandez & Wells Savills calculates the price per square foot of café. Down the street is bespoke menswear brand, residential property in Mayfair at £2,320, while Rake, soon to be joined by a new Private White VC in Knightsbridge and Belgravia it is £2,490 and menswear shop — the original is on arty Lamb’s £2,370 respectively. The point of Grosvenor’s Conduit Street. And Goodman Restaurants, which plan, however, is not necessarily to shoehorn launched the successful Burger & Lobster chain, homes in, but to restore the neighbourhood’s has opened Lobster Roll, a two-storey deli-cafe concept. Opposite Duke Street is Brown Hart Gardens, where you can bring sandwiches or buy your lunch at The Garden Café. The gardens were originally opened above the old Duke Street electricity substation in 1906, with a 10,000sq ft roof, a domed gazebo and steps at either end. Grosvenor transformed the site into a public rooftop garden, add- ing an Andrew Ewing water feature last year. There’s also a monthly food market. The first stage of Grosvenor’s investment focused around Mount Street, restoring the heritage and

DANIEL LYNCH DANIEL élan of old Mayfair with a contemporary twist. Dazzling: The Beaumont Hotel, opened recently The project saw £4 million spent on roads, pave- by renowned restaurateurs Corbin & King, with ments and public spaces, as well as a wider range its Antony Gormley “habitable sculpture” of shops, while keeping treasures including The Mount Street Deli and Allens of Mayfair, the

homesandproperty.co.uk/luxury butchers’ shop established for 120 years. vitality. It likes to say that out of 700 shops across Grosvenor Hill is turning into an arts quarter, with the estate, only 17 per cent are chain stores. Now the new Gagosian Gallery opening at number 20, Duke Street, on the other side of Oxford Street while bronze sculptures in the street, by Neal from Selfridges, wants to be part French, depict the late Terence Donovan, of the campaign to steal the whose studio was nearby, photo- crown from Knightsbridge graphing Sixties fashion model and turn North Mayfair Twiggy. into the highest-perform- However, Grosvenor isn’t a ing enclave of prime lone moderniser. Howard de central London. Walden Estates sexed up The transformation Marylebone’s Chiltern Street, has begun. Restaura- The Crown Estate worked won- teurs Chris Corbin ders in Regent Street, and the and Jeremy King, the Portman Estate is behind the duo behind The £12 million regeneration of Wolseley, The Delau- Portman Village on the other nay and Brasserie side of Oxford Street. Could Zédel, recently all this galvanise Kensington’s opened the wow- council into action? It’s no factor Art Deco-style small irony that the borough Beaumont Hotel, with with Europe’s wealthiest 75 rooms created from residents has a dreary High a converted garage. Street full of empty stores The eye-catching and mobile phone shops. Antony Gormley habitable sculpture sitting Visit our atop the entrance houses Three Lauras: milliner Laura online the £2,500-a-night Apsit Livens, centre, with luxury master suite. models Laura McLoughlin, section New-style independent left, and Laura Jones 12 WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD

Homes & Property Affordable homes homesandproperty.co.uk with NEXT STOP: CANNING TOWN Setting out the stall for shared ownership Flats start at £106,000 at Rathbone Market in a once-grim East End patch only two miles from Canary Wharf, says Ruth Bloomfield

NE of the country’s largest Start with part: and cafés and at its heart is an open courier companies report- 40 per cent square which will provide a new home edly refused to deliver to shares are for the area’s eponymous market. It Canning Town not so very available in ﬂats will also have a community centre and long ago — blaming spe- at Rathbone a library on the site, which is on the Ocifically its grim postwar housing Market, above busy Barking Road but is also close to estates and their obligatory loitering several small parks including East Ham gangs and mumbling junkies. Nature Reserve and the tennis courts However, Canning Town’s climb out at Hermit Road Recreation Ground. of its deprivation ditch has been speedy, mainly due to its hot location Whole new THAT’S THAT FOR TAT less than two miles from Canary Wharf, neighbourhood: Canning Town is a long-term work in with enough empty land to build new shops, cafés and progress but its Zone 2 station, on the homes on an impressivescale. a library are Jubilee line for the Tube, and on the Its transformation into a shiny new planned around Docklands Light Railway, provides fast regeneration zone has seen developers an open square, links to Canary Wharf and Stratford. lining up to fling £3.7 billion at a series a new home for Some diehard locals fear that with the of housing projects that will create the market stalls changes, their original East End 10,000 new homes and rebrand this Rathbone Market will become a mini area as a new suburb of trendy east more than seven times the city’s aver- one-bedroom flat with a full market looking to start a new career in the Spitalfields/Borough Market. Early indi- London. The latest convert to the age annual household income of just value of £265,000. Two-bedroom flats business market but priced out of the cations are that stalls selling “cultural delights of Canning Town is Mayor over £45,000. A third-way option start at £136,000 for a 40 per cent financial district.” cuisine, retro goods, vintage clothing Boris Johnson. In September he com- between renting and buying is shared share. “We are alreadywitnessing great The Rathbone Market project is big, and ladies’ fashion” are in, while knock- mitted to building 1,000 rental homes ownership, and Notting Hill Home changes in this part of town,” says Katie and, when complete, will include off designer handbags and second-hand there for young Londoners. Ownership has 42 such properties Bond, director of Notting Hill Home about 650 homes. The area has good tat are out. The average price of a property in available at its Rathbone Market Ownership. “Being so close to Canary transport links but has suffered from a Canning Town is £342,435, well below development. Prices start at £106,000, Wharf, Rathbone Market offers great dearth of facilities. However, Rathbone O Visit nottinghillhousing.org.uk/ the £500,000 London average but still which will buy a 40 per cent share of a starter homes for young professionals Market will have 35,000sq ft of shops rathbone

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5 Five things to do in November By Barbara Chandler

1 GO MIDCENTURY MODERN 3 AT HOME WITH CECIL BEATON November 23 at Dulwich College, SE21 Cecil Beaton at Home: Town & Country, (modernshows.com) November 18 to December 5 at Sibyl DOMESTIC design fiends love this Colefax & John Fowler, Brook Street, W1 regular shopping spree which (sibylcolefax.com) combines authentic “midcentury” SEE cameos from the three homes of furniture, ceramics, lights and more the celebrated photographer, theatre from 65 dealers with modern stuff and costume designer, recreated by from 25 contemporary designers. Star Andrew Ginger, curator of an buys this time include a desk and acclaimed show on Beaton at chair by Pierre Jeanneret, rare Arne Salisbury Museum. Star turn is a new Jacobsen Grand Prix chairs, and a version of Beaton’s Circus bed, metal table and chair by Ringo Starr. pictured, which was designed by Rex Also browse Danish treasures such as Whistler in 1931, handmade by the monkey, above, by Kay Bojesen, specialist bed makers Beaudesert US collectables, Dutch design, Finnish (beaudesert.co.uk). Admission free. ceramics, restored clocks, limited- Lecture evenings, on November 19 edition posters, and vintage fabrics. & 26 and December 2 & 4, are £25. Go “industrial” with lockers, metal desks, lights and cabinets from ships, 4 SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS FAIR shops and hospitals. Entry for trade/ Until Sunday at Olympia, Hammersmith serious collectors at 9am costs £15 Road, W14 (0871 230 1089; spiritof and from 10am it’s £9. Buy tickets christmasfair.co.uk) online for £8. AT THIS annual fair, 700 specialists are selling fashion, beauty, 2 BUY AN ANTIQUE homewares, food and drink, plus Winter Fine Art & Antiques Fair, from goodies for children — and even for today until Sunday at National Hall, pets. Experts from Jo Malone, The Hammersmith Road, Olympia, W14 Biscuiteers, The Dorchester, and (0114 223 9811; olympia-antiques.com) more will host free workshops. Enjoy THIS is a cracker, glamorous and on a seasonal menu at Mosimann’s pop- trend, with 120 exhibitors, 22,000 up restaurant overlooking the fair. visitors, and an estimated 30,000 Adults from £18.50; 13 to 16-year- objects for sale. Gawp at Agatha olds, £11; under-12s free. Christie’s silver and Humphrey Bogart’s drinking glasses, along with 5 SKATE AT SOMERSET HOUSE works by Cartier. At exhibiting art November 11 to January 11, Somerset galleries, works by Andy Warhol House, The Strand, WC2 (020 7836 (above) and Banksy jostle with 8686; somersethouse.org.uk) Picassos. Buy fine furniture, or bag ALONGSIDE the famous ice rink, an unusual Christmas present from Fortnum & Mason will fill 15 rooms in around £75. All items are vetted by Somerset House with its Christmas industry experts. Join a free daily goodies, from hampers — the one tour, and/or talks. Interiors expert pictured is £50 — to chocs, tea Alidad will share design secrets, and caddies and other speciality foods in gilders and woodcarvers are showing gorgeous packaging, to decorations, off their craft skills. Take a break in candles, games, fashion accessories, Mosimann’s Winter Brasserie. and stocking fillers. “Meet the Tickets are £15 — show this paper makers” evenings, with carols from and get two for the price of one celebrated choirs, are on Tuesdays. on the door. Skating sessions start at £7.50. 16 WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Homes abroad

HE small central Swiss town of Andermatt, 90 minutes from Zurich, aims to join the elite Alpine ski resorts club Andermatt, new this winter and has St Moritz, TVerbier and Zermatt in its sights. Andermatt Swiss Alps, the single Swiss big cheese largest residential building project ever undertaken in the Alps, is also Switzer- land’s most ambitious new ski project. A tiny Alpine backwater is about to join Unusually, the Swiss government will let anyone buy a home there, bypassing skiing’s super league, says Cathy Hawker the usual strict permit system. Andermatt has form as a holiday favourite. German poet Goethe described it in 1779 as “the most inter- esting and beautiful place” and Queen Victoria visited several times. However, its role as a military base for the Swiss army from the Fifties meant tourism took a back seat. Hard-core skiers still liked its devilishly difficult, cold slopes but the town relied — successfully — on the 80,000 troops stationed there.

A NEW PLAN By 2000, with the military base sharply reduced, affluent Andermatt needed a new focus. It has come in the shape of £1.3 billion investment in Andermatt Swiss Alps. The ambitious plan includes building seven hotels, an 18-hole golf course designed by Gary Player, and 500 apartments in 42 buildings with easy access to the central lift station. &#&& There will be large indoor sports and swimming centres, a revamped train # & $-&&%& station and 17 new lifts, with a new family-friendly ski area on the sunnier, south-facing slopes. If all goes to plan, 1 ,&(&0,&0,(&.& )(&+"& 101& (431/& Andermatt in 15 years will look very +1(*,&.& (4&(+& *3 ,44&(1&.&413& different to today’s sleepy town. &(3&(+&0,&$,&+& 101&'&51 ,2 It took four years before the plans were passed but now the golf course is

complete and early flat owners have ALAMY '&),+&((5, moved in. The first hotel, the magnifi- Little treasure with a big future: sleepy Andermatt town in central Switzerland &),+&((5, cent five-star Chedi Andermatt, opened last December, immediately winning complete and occupied, some with start from 1,022sq ft and are fully fur- &),+"&&)(0&((5, a place on Condé Nast Traveller’s best wooden walls and cosy fireplaces, and nished with all the style of the hotel. new hotels list. all with contemporary bathrooms and Chedi Andermatt penthouses with up kitchens. The “modern Alpine” archi- to 6,630sq ft of living space and wide (+5(3& ,/,,(1& *0,5, PROPERTY FOR SALE tecture is attractive, with pale wooden terraces start from £2.69 million Apartments are all freehold, and are cladding. through Abercrombie & Kent Interna- 1,*&(3& 1, &&5,&05, either linked to the Chedi Andermatt The Chedi Residences, with full tional Estates. These have high ceil- 1/0& (41&*,5(&,*1 *(1 or in separate buildings nearby. Aber- access to the hotel’s completed facili- ings, good views and can be finished 1 (,&)(4*&&,(*,&&, ,&((5, crombie & Kent International Estates ties — such as the slick spa complex as buyers choose. Four of the 13 pent- is selling 495 newly built one- to five- with a swimming pool and gym — houses and half of the apartments 15(,+&*54,1&,*,5),&' bedroom flats in 42 contemporary, include one- and two-bedroom apart- have been sold so far to buyers from chalet-style buildings priced from ments from £1.15 million through Europe, Asia and the Middle East. £323,270. The first apartments are Savills Alpine Homes. The apartments Three of 25 bespoke chalets have also sold. From “Andermatt Swiss Alps is a wonderful £2.69 million: year-round alternative to the popular Chedi Andermatt but expensive resorts of Verbier and St penthouses, with Moritz,” says Robert Green of Aber- wide terraces, crombie & Kent International Estates. fabulous views “But those looking to invest need to and full use of share the vision of what Andermatt will ﬁve-star Chedi become in five or six years’ time as the hotel facilities project grows and more facilities including spa become available.”

,(4&0/(0&0 &!0,&,4) ,& 14+1/2&,(4&0/(0&0 &0,& 0 &((5,2 CONTACTS AND FACT FILE O Savills Alpine Homes: alpine homesintl.com (020 7016 3740). O Abercrombie & Kent International Estates: akinternationalestates.com From £335,000: (020 3667 7016). ﬂats at the O The Chedi Andermatt: thechedi- Andermatt andermatt.com (0041 43 344 6252). Gemse building, O Chedi Residences apartments can be part of the put in an optional rental pool which is Andermatt managed by the hotel. Swiss Alps O Annual service charges start from development £1,800.

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HELEN MOORE, who has been making fashion and furnishings for three decades, says fake fur has improved greatly in recent years. Her business in Devon employs 50 people, and she and her husband DesigDesignDesignign trendtrendstreends are both Goldsmiths College art ByB BarbaraB b Chandler Ch dl graduates, as is daughter Hester. “We’ve moved on from those first faux fur harsh acrylics to a fibre called modacrylic,” Moore explains, “The AUX FUR is everywhere. to right, faux mink and velvet throw, fur avoids animal cruelty.” Shown Bedroom Company. White, soft, cool fur is now so much more luxurious Top fashion brands are £159; faux desert fox, £149; faux here is a UK-made faux fox throw with and silky, the Ice Queen throw, and feels amazing. Everybody wants producing jackets, scarves, ermine and velvet throw, £169; faux faux suede back. Medium size (140cm pictured (145cm x 180cm), costs £99. to stroke it, just like they want to bags and slippers, while all leopard print and fleece, £149; faux x 180cm) is £129; large (140cm x Visit frenchbedroomcompany. stroke a cat.” the home shops are lynx, £156; faux mole, £156; faux 240cm) is £179. Visit thelongeststay. co.uk (01444 415430). And what makes a good throw? “It flauntingF faux. Crucially, Arctic fox, £149, and faux desert fox com (020 7349 9057). is all about the look and feel. “modacrylics” have replaced the throw, small, £125. The stag head coat BREEZING in just in time for Examine the seams and edges. older fake fibres, which makes new hooks are £35 each. Oka’s flagship “FAKE fur will add 4/5Christmas at The White Check the lining is good quality and furs softer, finer and silkier, with store is in Fulham Road, SW3 3 texture, depth and luxury Company are a big, luxurious faux fur well stitched — you don’t want a authentic-looking fakes available of (020 7581 2574). Branches in to your interiors,” says beanbag, £285, and white faux fur synthetic-looking backing. We use Arctic fox, brown bear, wolf, lynx, Lancaster Road, W11 (020 7792 Georgia Metcalfe, Ralph Polar Bears with embroidered suede-like or velvet fabrics.’’ and, nearer to home, rabbit and 1425), New King’s Rd, SW6 (020 founder of The eyes. “Giant” Ralph is 45cm high x Liberty, Selfridges and Fortnum & mole. For the more adventurous, 7751 9874), and Sunningdale, French 70cm x 80cm and costs £140. The Mason stock the Helen Moore bright pops of colour now include Berkshire. Enquiries to medium size (20cm high x 22cm x brand, and it is available online at furs in cerise, flame, and turquoise. okadirect.com (0844 815 24cm) is £20, and the little bear is £9 helenmoore.com. On a cold night a voluptuous throw 7380). (11cm x 11cm x 11cm). There are 13 with a soft suede or brushed cotton stores within the M25, including Top: Helen Moore British-made back makes you feel cosseted. “WE HAVE a new UK supplier Brent Cross, Canary Wharf, magenta throw, £275 for 140cm x 2for luxury faux fur and the trend Covent Garden, Marylebone High 180cm, with king size at £675. NEW for autumn is a huge range of has really taken off,” says Sherry Street, Kingston, St Pancras Magenta hot water bottle, £58 1 faux fur throws at Oka. Shown Roberts, of online lifestyle brand station and Westfield, or buy (helenmoore.com; 01884 860900) here on the chair is a faux rabbit fur thelongeststay.com. “Most 5 online at thewhite company. and velvet throw, £169, then from left importantly for our customers, faux com (020 3758 9222).

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“This is a really nice way to live”: Charles Holland says his Barbican ﬂat is “so well designed — and you couldn’t be any more in London”

PEREGRINE FALCON lands first only to rent through the corpora- at the far end of the balcony tion, in the Eighties many flats were sold of architect Charles Holland’s under right-to-buy, and are now 33rd-floor Barbican flat privately owned. some mornings and calmly Holland, 45, who designed interiors Aeats its breakfast, contemplating the vast with artist Grayson Perry for A House for sweep of the capital. Up here, where rare Essex, a holiday rental property built as LIVING WITH gale-force winds can make the wooden part of philosopher Alain de Botton’s doors and windows creak eerily as the Living Architecture project, is currently brutalist concrete tower shifts to and fro, working on several housing projects in all London is laid out like a glittering and around London. He and his writer carpet, taking in the Shard in one wife, Jenny, moved to Barbican two years direction and the Eye in the other: as ago with their children, Baxter, five, and FALCONS magnificent and breathtaking a sight as three-year-old Nancy. But they hadn’t you are ever likely to see. planned to live in what was once the tall- The Barbican estate is rightly recog- est residential tower in Europe. Architect Charles Holland says his nised today as one of Britain’s most “We were in a flat in Stoke Newington exciting and ambitious housing projects, and looking for a three-bedroom house 33rd-floor Barbican flat is a great place to which is why the entire place was listed to buy,” says Holland, who has a 12-year- Grade II in 2001. old daughter from a previous relation- raise his young family. They love the space This area, just outside the city wall, is ship. “But there were none we could steeped in history. The word Barbecana, afford. — and the view, he tells Philippa Stockley meaning guarded gatehouse, is Latin. “I had a friend living in this flat and The area was flattened during the Blitz, when he said he was leaving, my wife leaving Cripplegate with only 48 resi- wrestled him to the floor and removed dents. In 1957, the Corporation of Lon- the keys from his pocket.” don commissioned modernist architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon to design HE three-bedroom flat, which DIY job in the late Seventies, and there French yellow floor lamp to an amazing being somewhere so well designed. a new part of town on the 40-acre plot, has a balcony running round are “three too many doors”, Holland mirror, to the “PY” half of a lit-up sign We’ve all lived in poorly converted Vic- “with everything people need”, says two sides, was one of the few says. These are the only things he wants that once graced Faversham’s Wimpy torian houses, where everything is as Holland. still let by the Corporation, to change, including putting a bright bar, and a retro-looking bookcase with cheap as chips and then you spend your In a Utopian vision, the pedestrian site and the Hollands were able to yellow rubber floor in the kitchen — yellow Perspex door slides, made by a life running up and down stairs. Very was set far above the traffic. As well as leaseT it. Like the majority of Barbican although, he explains, most things joiner friend. few flats compare with this in terms of housing blocks, there would be three flats, most of the interior, including door removed from Barbican flats have to go The Seventies classic wallpaper in the quality — it is refreshing. towers, eight acres of gardens, and the handles and the two plain white bath- into storage, under English Heritage’s hall, printed in bright orange, is a perfect “It’s incredibly well made, and we never largest arts complex in Europe. Built rooms, is original. The galley kitchen, keen eye. The Hollands’ interior design foil for framed posters of the same hear anything from next door. It is a lot between 1965 and 1976, Barbican has however, once all white melamine, was concentrates on an eclectic mix of epoch. The flat is colourful, cheery, and more difficult to annoy your neighbours 2,014 flats and about 4,000 residents. At redone in stained timber, probably as a bright, modern collectables, from a giant full of ever-changing light. “It’s nice here than anywhere else I have lived. You EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 27 y.co.uk with My home Homes & Property

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Be bold: strong colours and a gilded modern-retro mirror, enhanced by natural light

Galley kitchen: one of the ﬂat’s few non-original areas, probably a Seventies DIY job couldn’t be any more in London. It has they’re all just a few metres away, and Get the look made me love being in the city again. It’s there is a nice park. easy to walk everywhere. In places like “The Barbican should be revisited. In O CHARLES HOLLAND is partner, with O Tulip Eero Saarinen chairs, and table O Table, sprayed pink: bought on eBay Stoke Newington, when it takes three the UK we have become unambitious Elly Ward, at ordinaryarchitecture.co.uk in breakfast room: from conranshop. O Shelving unit: made by joiner/builder hours to get anywhere, it becomes your and incredibly conservative about what O The strong blue paint used in the flat, co.uk — or try eBay Paul Rigo (07980 235239) bit of London. But from here we can stroll a house actually is. The Barbican is an Rock-a-Billy Blue from the Crown Vintage O Cast aluminium head, a maquette O Anni Albers “De Stijl” reissue carpet: to St Paul’s or Smithfield, or wherever. amazing place to bring up a family, range, is discontinued. Check for A House for Essex: cast by twentytwentyone.com The City is a lovely place to walk around there’s lots of freedom and space — this crownpaints.co.uk for an alternative millimetre.uk.net O Lavaliers (1975) wallpaper in hall: by at weekends, it is empty, and has really is a really nice way to live.” O Yellow Signal floor lamp by Jieldé in O Gilded MDF fractured mirror: from littlegreene.com good architecture. John Soane, Rem Kool- breakfast room: from madeindesign.co. the Decora range at deknudtmirrors. O Any “WIM” sign enquiries to Charles haas, Edwin Lutyens, James Stirling — Photographs: David Butler uk or hollowaysofludlow.com com Holland, as before 28 WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD

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HE Pig is a rare breed, a Left: head chef Kamil Oseka at group of four intimate, The Pig near Bath. Inset, the design-conscious Steal the style gorgeous Grade II-listed Georgian restaurant-hotels scattered hotel, cut from mellow Bath stone across southern England Tthat have been a runaway success trained wife, who, in her fifties, among London foodies and retains the youthful enthusiasm of a weekenders. Quirky and eclectic student. The Hutsons’ CV includes with a truly individual shabby-chic spells at Soho House and Chewton signature, The Pig near Bath opened Pig chic Glen in Hampshire. Robin created this year in the Mendip Hills — joining and sold the Hotel du Vin chain, and The Pig on the Beach in Dorset and now focuses on “The Pigs” and on Southampton’s Pig in the Wall — and The Pig near Bath is Londoners’ Lime Wood, the couple’s five-star has quickly become as popular as the hotel in the New Forest. “We like to original Pig in the New Forest. cosy country house retreat, use textures in our furnishings,” says Redefining the country house hotel Judy. “We are more likely to do rusty experience, there is no room for the latest in a litter of four than shiny. Yes, it’s shabby chic but floral chintz, ankle-thick carpets or we think of it as more old and new stuffy formality at Bath. Instead, with the feel-good formula, mixed, eclectic and homely.” expect light-touch décor with hints of The Hutsons’ personal touch is old-world charm. Nostalgia starts at says Cathy Hawker everywhere in the Bath hotel, from the brass front door knocker and the sage and buttercream panelling continues past the boot rack to the to the French script wallpaper. Two giant fire irons in the log-filled grate plump, cast-iron pigs guard the next to the leather club chairs. entrance. A decadent private dining The Pig is in a Grade II-listed room, seating 24 and inspired by the Georgian mansion cut from mellow artwork for the Rolling Stones’ Bath stone. In the Seventies and Beggars Banquet album, is one of Eighties this was Hunstrete House, Judy’s favourite rooms. “It is the one of Britain’s top five-star hotels, antithesis of every private dining but neglect in the intervening years room in the country, with stone had taken its toll. Judy and Robin floors that we added, walls decorated Hutson stroked the tatty old pile into to look like decaying plaster and a a 29-room hotel of understated huge, bare-topped table with luxury. There are claret velvet sofas, mismatched gothic dining chairs.” stripped wooden floors and a Hotel director Tom Ross describes mirrored display of artfully The Pig as essentially a restaurant mismatched glasses — a modern take with rooms, and the kitchen garden on the traditional country house look is central. Food is grown on site or carefully curated by master hotelier sourced from within a 25-mile radius. Robin, and Judy, his art school- There’s an apple orchard, a neat herb and vegetable garden, chickens and three miniature pigs.

GET THE LOOK Judy’s address book includes, in Chelsea, George Smith for sofas and Core One for statement one-off pieces of furniture, with The Old Cinema in #)*# Chiswick and Lassco in Southwark for decorative artefacts. Wells Reclamation in Somerset and Victoria Antiques in Cornwall are also productive hunting grounds. “I use paint from Paint Library and Little Greene. Hungerford Arcade provides bric-a-brac and antiques and I like young British fabric designers such as Sarah Hardaker, Rachael Mitas and Emily Bond.”

CONTACTS: O The Pig near Bath: thepighotel.com (0845 077 9494). Rooms from £139

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HAT better reason to get outdoors in cold weather than to enjoy the fragrance of winter flowers? The Wroses might be over until next summer, but there are shrubs that will deliver winter perfume better than any scented candle to enhance your outdoor room. Bees will benefit, too, from the rare food source. Give yourself a good reason to be led up the garden path by planting a fragrant winter-flowering shrub at the far end of your plot. The spicy scents of exotic witch hazels are worth the trek, and the showy blooms on bare twigs resemble chenille spiders. Two of the finest are coral-flowered Jelena and deep red Diane. Viburnum bodnan- tense Dawn is a can’t-kill shrub that makes another great winter choice. The large pink flowers smell of honey and Perfumed beauty: Daphne bholua Jacqueline Postill almonds, and keep on coming from late autumn until spring. RICH SCENT AND PRETTY FRUIT Mahonia is the perfect shrub to plant by the front door, or as a focal point in ground or container. It thrives in shady London gardens. Large cartwheels of evergreen leaf sprays give mahonias a handsome architectural presence all year round, and from early winter, they produce extravagant, rich yellow flower sprays that smell just like lily of the valley. As a bonus, the flowers are followed by bunches of navy blue ber-

ries that birds adore. Winter Sun is the PICTURES: MARIANNE MAJERUS compact variety for small spaces. Aroma therapy: give the garden a dash of spice with a witch hazel such as Hamamelis Feuerzauber Lemon air freshener: Chimonanthus praecox Luteus Honeysuckle’s reputation for wonderful scent is upheld with the winter version, shrubby honeysuckle Lonicera purpusii. Winter Beauty is the garden- friendly variety to look for, and will give you the sweetest scent from clusters of Make perfect scents all winter creamy flowers on the bare branches which can be clipped to give you jugfuls of scented garden flower stems. With Fill your winter garden with fragrant shrubs that will flower right through to spring just green leaves in summer, it needs to be planted as part of a crowd scene that from late winter is covered with will scent a whole room with spicy DON’T FORGET DAPHNE or white winter blooms that have an in the border. sprays of tufted white flowers. You lemon perfume, so it can be forgiven Follow your nose to the garden centre exceptionally full-bodied, fruity per- Park something deliciously fragrant don’t need to bend down to smell the for being slow to bloom after planting, for Daphne odora Aureomarginata, the fume. Just right for a pot on the patio right by the patio or terrace. Christmas luscious honey scent because it is and being a little ungainly. The gor- popular evergreen shrub with pointed, or terrace table, compact Daphne A Box is a great choice for a small garden. carried on the air. Just a few twigs of geous waxy, butter-yellow flowers stud bright green leaves that are finely favours moist soil or compost, a spot It forms a compact evergreen dome wintersweet, Chimonanthus praecox, the bare branches from January. edged in lemon, and rounded soft pink in the sun or light shade, and merits the extra attention. The most desirable daphne however, is the fabulous and costly Jacqueline Postill, which is an investment shrub for a sheltered, sunny spot or front- See it buy it door porch, where you can revel in highly fragrant, deep pink flowers from late December. See it: try this snappy app Buy it: garden style IVEN a blast of winter sun- DOWNLOAD a free new app that DO YOU favour a Zen-style garden, all shine, the volatile oils of identifies garden plants, tells you how serenity, cobblestones and lavender and rosemary to grow them and where to buy them. contemplative pool, or do you prefer a foliage are just as potent as PlantSnapp is the idea of botanist clean-edged minimal feel, with white in high summer. Large pots George Williams, who says many of us plaster walls and colourblock planting? Gon the patio of culinary Mediterranean know the common names of garden Whether you fancy enchanted herbs that also include sage and thyme plants, but not the Latin names needed Bohemian, urban upcycling or grassy — try lemon thyme for a sharp citrus to locate them. “I wanted to do away prairie on your patch, landscape punch — are lovely for a soothing aro- with clunky manuals and make it as designer Rochelle Greayer, in her richly matherapy hit when stroked, and make easy and cheap as possible,” he says. illustrated book Cultivating Garden great container evergreens that To use PlantSnapp, take a picture of Style, helps define your individual look, can withstand prolonged weather the plant, upload it, and within 24 suggesting plants, furniture and extremes. hours one of 10 on-tap horticultural accessory ideas. Prostrate rosemary looks especially experts provides an identification and Cultivating Garden Style (Timber good if you leave it to tumble down the cultivation details. You can order the Press) costs £25, but Homes & Property sides of a tall container or window box, plant through the app and have it sent readers can buy the book for £23 and in a sunny spot it will produce a to you. You get three free IDs and then including p&p by calling 01872 562327 profusion of blue blossom that will it’s 33p a time. Visit plantsnapp.com and quoting code HP11. keep going until spring. 34 WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD

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NESCO recently awarded the status of an “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Spotlight Humanity” to Kimjang, the communal act of making UKimchi, Korea’s sour and spicy national dish. Perhaps the best place in Britain NEW MALDEN to taste this fermented vegetable meal, traditionally made using napa cabbage, is in one of the Korean restaurants that line New Malden High Street. About 20,000 Koreans live in New Malden — the largest Korean community in Europe. However, no one seems to know for certain how this south-west London suburb became “Little Korea”. Was it because the South Korean ambassador’s residence was once in Perfect for Lord Chancellor Walk? Perhaps it’s because Korean electronics giant Sam- sung had its European headquarters For the family: Jurassic Encounter Adventure Golf at the here until nine years ago. Or does the World of Golf, which also has an academy and driving range story trace back to the Fifties, when Kimchi — locally based aerospace company Racal Avionics had a joint venture with a Korean conglomerate? Of course, New Malden, forever in the shadow of better-known neighbours and keep-fit Wimbledon and Kingston, has a range of relatively affordable family houses, good schools and an easy commute into central London, which could have enthusiasts attracted the community. Or perhaps Koreans love their golf — there are three local courses — and cricket? Malden Wanderers in Cambridge Avenue, a Three golf courses, tennis, cricket, cricket club with tennis and badminton badminton — and a wide range of courts, was voted one of the 12 most beautiful grounds in England by The well-priced homes — keep kids of all Wisden Cricketer magazine, now New Malden High Street: long-established local shops, known simply as The Cricketer. ages happy. By Anthea Masey offices, a branch of Waitrose,and those Korean restaurants New Malden is cut in half by the busy A3 road. Ten miles south-west of cen- is in Traps Lane in the Coombeside area, East Asian ﬂavours: at Yami Korean tral London, it sits south of affluent It’s a good a six-bedroom detached property with restaurant in New Malden High Street, Coombe, west of Raynes Park, north place to look an outdoor pool and an asking price of John Deng, three, is in good company of Worcester Park and east of Tolworth. £2.65 million (see homesandproperty. Two Thames tributaries run close by for family co.uk/traps). In Lynton Road, another close to Malden Golf Club is another — Beverley Brook to the east and the houses, street of detached homes, halfway popular area within easy reach of the Hogsmill to the west. between New Malden and Berrylands station. A four-bedroom semi-detached great schools stations, a five-bedroom double-fronted house here, in Cambridge Avenue, is WHAT THERE IS TO BUY — and the Twenties house is on the market for on the market for £975,000 (visit After the arrival of the railway in 1846, commute £1.15 million (homesandproperty. homesandproperty.co.uk/camb). New Malden started to develop and co.uk/lynt). The so-called painters’ roads, south there are Victorian semi-detached and to central There are large detached and semi- of the A3, are close to Malden Manor terrace houses in the roads off the High London detached Victorian houses in Presburg station and are named after artists Street. They are found in particular in Road, also a conservation area, where including Romney, Turner, Gainsbor- The Groves conservation area which is easy the last detached house sold for ough, Lawrence, Reynolds and Van features Lime Grove, Poplar Grove, £882,500 in April 2008, and the last Dyck. An extensively refurbished five- Chestnut Grove and Sycamore Grove. semi went for £955,000 in November bedroom house in Van Dyck Avenue is Elsewhere, New Malden has mainly 2011. for sale, priced £659,950 (homesand- Twenties and Thirties detached, semi- A renovated five-bedroom detached property.co.uk/vandyck). detached and terrace houses. Victorian house in Elm Road in The Two-bedroom garden flats currently It is a good place to look for family Groves conservation area is for sale for on the market range from £260,000 homes and there are nearly five times Photographs:: £1.15 million (see homesandproperty. for one in Beresford Road (homesand- Landmark: Burlington Road, where the tower of B&Q Extra more houses for sale than flats. The Graham co.uk/elm). The Christchurch conser- property.co.uk/beresford) to has the largest building-mounted wind turbine in Britain most expensive house currently for sale Hussey vation area, east of Coombe Road and £389,950 for one in West Barnes Road To find a home in New Malden, visit: homesandproperty.co.uk/newmalden

£1.5 MILLION £290,000 £600,000 £525,000 THIS six-bedroom house in Orchard Avenue in A WELL-EQUIPPED, two double-bedroom A FLEXIBLE, four-bedroom, semi-detached family REFURBISHED to a “designer finish” this period the Christchurch area of New Malden has a maisonette in Errol Gardens, New Malden, with a house in Glebe Gardens, Worcester Park, with a house in Beresford Road, New Malden, has two substantial rear garden. Through Curchods. large private garden. Through Barnard Marcus. superb garden for entertaining. Through Haart. bedrooms and original features (Hawes & Co). O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/orch O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/errol O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/glebe O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/beres EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 35 homesandproperty.co.uk with Property searching Homes & Property

shop since 1919. There are also Korean restaurants and supermarkets, but CHECK THE STATS cheap clothing brands and charity shops do not indicate a high street in ■WHAT HOMES COST the rudest of health. However, locals BUYING IN NEW MALDEN are pinning their hopes on the arrival (Average prices) of chain restaurants Nando’s and Pizza One-bedroom flat £258,000 Express to add to local offerings Two-bedroom flat £317,000 The Glasshouse, Chicco Caffè and Al Two-bedroom house £404,000 Forno. Three-bedroom house £546,000 In Burlington Road there is a B&Q Four-bedroom house £765,000 Extra with the largest building- Source: Zoopla mounted wind turbine in the UK, while RENTING IN NEW MALDEN in Beverley Way there is a branch of (Average rates) Tesco Extra. One-bedroom flat £988 a month Two-bedroom flat £1,253 a month OPEN SPACE Two-bedroom house £1,421 a month Beverley Park in Park View has a play- Three-bedroom house £1,880 a month ground, tennis courts, and football and Four-bedroom house £3,182 a month cricket pitches. There is a small local Source: Zoopla park in Blagdon Road, while there are GO ONLINE FOR MORE waterside walks along the Hogsmill River and Beverley Brook, and Wim- O The best schools in and around bledon Common and the vast green New Malden acres of Richmond Park are close by. O The best streets, and the up-and- coming spots to watch LEISURE AND THE ARTS O The latest housing developments More sporty than arty, New Malden O The lowdown on the rental scene boasts three golf clubs. The Malden O How New Malden compares with Golf Club is in Traps Lane, with the rest of the UK on house prices Coombe Hill Golf Club off Coombe Lane West and Coombe Wood Golf For all this and more, visit Club in George Road. homesand The New Malden Bowls Club in Lime property.co.uk/ Grove has been going since 1904, and the Graham Spicer Table Tennis Club spotlightnewmalden in Dukes Avenue is a top indoor venue for the sport. The nearest council- NEXT WEEK: Barnet. Do you owned swimming pool is at the Malden live there? Tell us what you Centre in Blagdon Road, and there’s think @HomesProperty cricket, tennis and badminton at Malden Wanderers Cricket Club in (see homesandproperty.co.uk/west- Cambridge Avenue. barnes). Kingston and Wimbledon have both Staying power: according to estate theatres and cinemas. agent Daniel Miller from Curchods, a Travel: trains from New Malden sta- strong sense of community keeps tion take 22 minutes to Waterloo with people in the area. the possibility of changing at Clapham Junction or Vauxhall. Other stations SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS serving local residents are Berrylands, New Malden High Street runs south Motspur Park, Malden Manor and Nor- from the station to the Fountain round- biton, with journeys that take a few about and is dominated by two minutes longer. New Malden, Motspur 16-storey office tower blocks — major Park and Malden Manor are in Zone 4 local employer BAE Systems has a base and an annual travelcard to Zone 1 costs here. There is a branch of Waitrose, £1,800. Berrylands and Norbiton are TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE along with the Tudor Williams depart- in Zone 5 and an annual travel card Where in New Malden did this young ment store, which has been in the area costs £2,136. chap discover greasepaint? Find the since 1913, plus a branch of local chain Council: Kingston council is Conserv- answer at homesandproperty.co.uk/ Johnsons Shoes, and charming little ative controlled and Band D council tax spotlightnewmalden Pengilly’s, a luggage and shoe repair Imposing: detached trophy homes are found in Traps Lane and surrounding roads is £1,678.03

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WHAT’S WE ARE first-time buyers in London who Fiona YOUR have found our dream house, a refurbished McNulty PROBLEM? Q Victorian property. The survey has revealed a OUR LAWYER ANSWERS IF YOU have a crack in the outside load-bearing wall which YOUR QUESTIONS question for the current owners say they know nothing about. It is Fiona McNulty, clear from the brickwork that there has been a poor please email attempt at repair at some stage. We also know the OUR recent house legalsolutions@ sellers removed a large tree from the garden, and their purchase went through in standard.co.uk insurance premium is really high but they haven’t Q 13 weeks from our offer or write to Legal given a reason why. Should we walk away or continue being accepted to Solutions, Homes with the purchase? Our conveyancer says there could completion. The previous owner & Property, be a problem insuring the property. left an attic and shed full of things, London Evening plus other items throughout the Standard, 2 Derry YOU must find out as much as possible about the house. Unfortunately, we were Street, W8 5EE. cracking and its cause, and what the sellers or stuck in a chain and the seller’s We regret that Atheir predecessors have done about it. As part of daughter, who acted on her questions cannot the conveyancing process the sellers should mother’s behalf, feels we delayed be answered complete a property information form, giving full details the sale. As a result she is refusing individually but regarding high premiums, excesses and claims. to accept responsibility for her we will try to There is section which also asks if there are warranties mother’s items. What is our legal feature them or guarantees for underpinning which may be relevant if standing if we give all these things here. Fiona the cracking is due to the property suffering subsidence. to a local charity? McNulty is a Your solicitor should be raising specific enquires of the partner in the sellers’ solicitors to find out about the cause of the THIRTEEN weeks from your includes a section asking the seller to house, shed and attic she has failed to residential cracking and why the sellers’ insurance is expensive. offer being accepted to confirm they will remove rubbish do what she agreed. Ask your property, farms The cracking may have been due to the roots of the tree A completion was not an from the property and specifically solicitor to inform her solicitor of and estates team that was removed, or to something else, but if you are unduly long period of time mentions the loft, garden, their client’s failure to empty the at Withy King LLP aware of the issues you can decide whether to take them when a chain of buyers and sellers outbuildings, garages and sheds. property of all contents. You can ask (withyking.co.uk). on. It would be wise to have a structural engineer’s report, was involved. Even if you were Contact the solicitor who acted for your solicitor to give notice that if the which could help with regard to buildings insurance. Do responsible for any delay, that would you to see how the seller dealt with removal of the items is not arranged make sure that you can get insurance on normal terms. not give the seller or her daughter this point in the form, or look at your by a given date, you will arrange their grounds to act unreasonably. own copy of the form, if you have it. removal yourselves, but you will be More legal O These answers can only be a very brief commentary on When you bought the property the Assuming that the seller answered looking to the seller to meet your Q&As the issues raised and should not be relied on as legal advice. seller should have completed a saying that she would remove all costs. Such an approach will often Visit: homesand No liability is accepted for such reliance. If you have similar property.co.uk property information form. This contents, by leaving items in the have the desired result. issues, you should obtain advice from a solicitor. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 41 homesandproperty.co.uk with Letting on Homes & Property

FEW DAYS after a tenant moved in she emailed to complain that her bedroom was too small Flat to let — and there wasn’t enough storage.A She even attached a photo of stuff piled on her bed, as proof that she didn’t have enough space. What did she want me to do, build serial whingers her an extension? What she wanted was a rent reduction, of course. She suggested I called her “to discuss a rate that more accurately reflects the size of need not apply the room, so we can come to a mutually satisfactory agreement”. I did ring her, to suggest she put up Victoria Whitlock says landlords must fix some shelves, at her own expense. Yes, her bedroom was small, but it genuine property problems quickly, but has £750 a week: in North Eyot Gardens, Chiswick, John D Wood has this spectacular hadn’t shrunk since she viewed it and to admit some tenants are never satisfied three-bedroom apartment available to rent (homesandproperty.co.uk/renteyot) we agreed the rent. I hadn’t removed or added any furniture, everything was exactly the same, so no way was I every unreasonable demand, or days later, which I thought was pretty sometimes happen and even a great going to drop the price because she The tenants will walk all over you. If a darned good. landlord — that’s me, by the way — had too many clothes. tenant complains that something is The tenant disagreed. He yelled can’t prevent the odd mishap. I am always straight with tenants not to their liking after they have that four days was far too long to be In the end I told this guy that if he when I advertise a property. I make accidental moved in, then tough. They can’t left without hot water and he wanted couldn’t cope without hot water for sure they are aware of any expect you to make changes after a new boiler within 24 hours. When I four days he could move out and I shortcomings to avoid them moaning landlord they have agreed and signed the told him that with the best will in the would refund his rent. He stayed and when they move in, but still I get the contract. That said, if something is world I couldn’t get a boiler installed stopped moaning. Tenants usually odd complaint from those who broken, I think landlords or their the next day he swore a bit, then he do, as long as the landlord remains expect to find perfection. wanted to move out. I decided I agents should carry out repairs as swore a bit more. I was tempted to fair but firm. A couple of Canadian girls who would rather have a few days without soon as possible. However, even tell him to take a cold shower to calm rented rooms in a cheap flat rent than put up with a steady stream when I do, some tenants still whine. down. O Victoria Whitlock lets three complained the morning after they of complaints. Over the summer an old boiler in a Look, I know it’s unpleasant to be properties in south London. moved in that there was no tumble One of my first tenants was rental flat broke down on a Sunday left without hot water for a few days, To contact Victoria with your ideas dryer which, they said, was a “basic impossible to please, she complained morning. I managed to get hold of my even in summer, but bad things and views, tweet @vicwhitlock. amenity” in North America. I could about everything and I bent over regular heating engineer but the tell they were marathon whingers so backwards to accommodate her, but boiler was beyond repair. He agreed Find many more homes to rent at I offered to release them from the she was never satisfied. I learned to rearrange his diary, bless him, so contract they had signed if they then that it’s better not to give in to he could install a new boiler four homesandproperty.co.uk/lettings

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THURSDAY Diary of A distressed tenant telephones to tell me her lavatory is blocked. Fortunately, an estate our very own resident Superwoman — Hannah, our property manager — gets on the case immediately and arranges agent an emergency drain team to attend the property. MONDAY I rush out of the office to show an I am always up early on a Monday. I fuel apartment to a politician. As I arrive up with a good breakfast and arrive at there, he jumps out of a taxi, telling me the office to prepare for our meeting. he has only a few minutes to see the We review last week’s performance place. We view it in record time, just and share information about new four minutes. places that have opened up in the area so we can update our customers — and FRIDAY often uncover another choice of some- A coffee from Lantana in Charlotte where to go for lunch. Place helps me prepare for a busy day. I take the opportunity to mention I arrive in the office for a quick meeting Señor Ceviche in Kingly Court, Soho, with my commercial colleague. He has a new restaurant that serves Peruvian received some interest in a building in specialities . Old Compton Street and needs some likely rental yields should the property be turned into flats. I love these brain- storming sessions. We’re plunging in to help a tenant Friday is usually when most people make a decision on a flat, or move into TUESDAY am looking after French clients, who WEDNESDAY the lift is broken today. I take them to their new home, so efficiency and My first appointment is in Soho. I check feel more comfortable and reassured Sophie, the French lady I met on Mon- another mansion block where the lift is speed are crucial. out the building ready for the viewing to be able to speak their own language day, contacts me with an offer for the stuck on the third floor and the apart- I manage to get everything agreed for and meet a lovely young lady looking when moving here. Soho flat. Having worked with the land- ment is on the fourth floor. This is not my South American couple for a move- to rent a one-bedroom flat. She has just One of my aims for the day is to organ- lord of that particular flat for nearly six my day. Things get better after a few in tomorrow. They are happy, so we landed her first job in London, working ise a tour of suitable flats tomorrow for years now, I know exactly what he is more inspections and I think I have are happy at the end of a busy week. for a media company around the a South American couple coming to looking for and the kind of questions found them the perfect home. We dis- I stop off at Vagabond wine shop oppo- corner, and is looking to live in a London who need to secure something he will ask. All goes well on the call and cuss local amenities and head back to site for a nice bottle of Bordeaux to take convenient and buzzing area. Like me, by the weekend. I was recommended the offer is accepted — a happy landlord the office to prepare an offer. home. she is from France, so I tell her about to them by one of their friends, who and an excited tenant. My last viewing is a lovely, refurbished all the French bakeries in the area to was one of my previous clients. My Chilean couple arrive, and they are two-bedroom flat above a casino but make her feel at home. I have a clear idea of what they are really keen about starting their new life again, it is on the fourth floor — and O Sandrine Locatelli is a senior London has been called “France’s looking for and I am confident of find- in London. However, the first flat visit there’s no lift. My legs will know tomor- lettings negotiator at Hudsons in the sixth-biggest city” and increasingly I ing them something. doesn’t go well. It’s on the fifth floor and row about all the stairs I’ve climbed. West End (020 7631 8705). 46 WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD

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Victoria’s secret penthouse gardens THE ancient Hampshire Winchester Golf Club, yet ARGE, luxurious Lateral cathedral city of is only a few minutes away penthouses with roof flats in Winchester falls within the from the centre, with its terraces are a novelty in crucial 60-minute cobbled streets and chic Victoria, which is only just a chic, commuting time of boutiques. getting into its stride as a London, so Connaught At first sight, the scheme fashionableL address after years of historic Square, above, could appears to be a collection being “Civil Service land”, with a appeal. Trains to Waterloo of Georgian-style villas but Read more: visit dreary, windswept high street lined city just take just under an hour, in fact comprises 14 large by grey-slab office blocks. Now the plus — for weekend lateral apartments, each our new online area is being reborn with human- an hour yachties — there is quick with two bedrooms, a scale developments, better shops from access to the south coast terrace, a couple of luxury section and lots more flats. and Channel ports. parking spaces and storage Victoria’s secret is its location at the London Close proximity to good lockers. The homes may HomesAndProperty.co.uk/luxury dead centre of London. Kings Gate schools and a quick dash also appeal to weekenders is the latest new apartment block, to the station are also from London who want halfway between the train station must-haves for most country walks in the New and Parliament Square. bedrooms and up to 3,337sq ft of commuters, and this rare Forest and the South Triplex penthouses have been space. Interiors are sleek and new-build development Downs National Park. unveiled. They are among the most modern with floor-to-ceiling ticks those boxes. It lies on Prices from £775,000. expensive flats to arrive on the windows, and there are views of the western edge of the Call Jackson-Stops & Staff market in this revitalised SW1 Buckingham Palace and St James’s city next to historic Royal on 01962 844299. neighbourhood. Each has four Park from the 920sq ft roof terrace. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2014 47 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property Big future beckons for Beckenham A MOVE to extend the Bakerloo line to the south London suburbs is boosting Beckenham, already well- served by trains from London Bridge and Victoria. Beckenham Junction could one day be part of the Tube network, and there is also talk of a spur to Bromley town centre, which will open up the area to young first- time buyers who work in London. For now though, Beckenham’s a family favourite, with independent schools, playing fields, riding stables, golf courses and quick escape routes ARTY ALDGATE CULTURE to the Kent countryside. Century Gate, below, is a Linden Homes COMES TO NEW QUARTER scheme of detached, traditional-style family houses with spacious interiors, ALDGATE on the City fringe Whitechapel Gallery, which next to Kent County Cricket Club and might be described as an is credited with launching moments from the town centre. address where location is the careers of renowned Prices from £719,995 to £1.2 million more important than artists from David Hockney Call KFH on 020 7740 2640. lifestyle. However, a new to Gilbert & George. “quarter” is injecting life This piece of “cultural at seven-acre Goodman’s place-making” is intended Fields, where 920 homes to entice prospective are being built alongside buyers to apartments at hotels, shops and Kingswood Gardens, restaurants. above, the latest phase, A public park is also being where home owners will created, along with squares be able to hang limited- Handsome, red-brick Edwardian Stunning vista: rising with the new wave of and landscaped courtyard edition prints offered mansion blocks alongside Kings Gate roof development, the area is still at least gardens. A new art space is through the gallery. Westminster Cathedral — the equal of terrace views a third cheaper than neighbouring being added to the mix, Prices for the homes anything in Kensington or Chelsea — take in the Belgravia. Remaining Kings Gate with developer Berkeley start at £687,500. Call 020 are a reminder that Victoria was once Palace and St apartments start at £3.4 million. Call forging a partnership with 3217 1000. a top address. Though values are James’s Park Strutt & Parker on 020 7225 3866.

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