What Was Under the Floorboards in Soho?
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Wednesday 13 July 2016 Freshly Homes& baked Terracotta Property Page 28 NEW HOMES: BAKER STREET P8 CLEVER COMMUTES P10 BREXIT BENEFITS P15 SPOTLIGHT ON CLAPHAM P36 What was under the floorboards in Soho? The World of Interiors: Page 26 ANTONY CROLLA ANTONY London’s best property search news: homesandproperty.co.uk 6 WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Trophy home of £345,000: a two-bedroom flat in Bream Close, £480,000: a three-bedroom house in Holcombe the week Tottenham. Through Kings Group (020 8012 2349) Road, Tottenham. Kings Group (as before) Knightsbridge flat oozes opulence Tottenham Hale is £18.5 million: it is so easy to spend your money in Knightsbridge, especially when tempted by a the new King’s Cross magnificent apartment like this one, in posh Pont Street. There’s luxury in every to a bespoke kitchen/ to an exquisitely manicured, HE developer behind the nook, starting at ground breakfast room that appears south-facing garden where rebirth of King’s Cross has level with the grand hall to have marble on every there are living quarters for clinched a deal to regenerate leading to divine drawing surface. Four of the five staff, plus a double garage Tottenham Hale, creating and dining rooms. These are bedrooms are huge double for the Roller and a hundreds of new homes, linked by open doorways and suites with dressing rooms runabout. Through Knight Tjobs, shops and leisure facilities in a parquet flooring, flowing on on the lower level, opening Frank (020 8012 3479). £1 billion project. Haringey’s cabinet committee was last night set to agree a partnership with Argent to create what the council hopes Lifechanger will be “London’s next great affordable of the week Editor: head north Janice and open a Morley boutique hotel VISIT homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for in Edinburgh details of our usual promotion rules. When you respond to promotions, offers or competitions, the London Evening Bigger, better: neighbourhood of choice”. As part of Standard and its sister companies may Tottenham Hale, the deal the council will sell Argent pub- £1.5 million: take the leap contact you with relevant offers and focus of £1 billion licly owned sites including Tottenham and leave London for Drylaw services that may be of interest. Please regeneration, is Hale bus station. 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There is a separate study and bathroom and a large glass door opening to a neat patio — ideal for enjoying summer drinks while soaking up views over lush gardens filled with box hedges and herbaceous borders. For further details contact John D Wood (020 8012 1758). By Faye Greenslade Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2016 7 homesandproperty.co.uk powered by News | Homes & Property Branson É BREXIT isn’t bringing down prices on the Hyde Park Estate in W2. A student home in Connaught Square, left, has just exchanged at the asking price of digs sell £5.95 million, a record for the square in terms of pounds per square foot. for £6m Richard Branson, left, started Student magazine, his first business, in the basement of the 3,671sq ft property in 1968. The five-bedroom Grade II-listed house with a pretty terrace has a location to die for — with Hyde Park and Oxford Street just around the corner. New residents should brace themselves for the paparazzi, as the GETTY Blairs are among near neighbours. SWNS Got some Ramsay rocks to gossip? Tweet victory in Cornish Homes @amiranews planning skirmish É GORDON RAMSAY is cooking up a plot in Cornwall. He has won gossip planning permission to demolish his £4.4 million home, above, and By Amira Hashish despite ongoing protests from locals who claim his scheme will ruin the picturesque coastline, the council has ruled in favour of the celebrity Tempted chef, pictured below with wife Tana. He will be able to build two Taylor? properties in place of the original. One will sit at the bottom of the É A VICTORIAN garden, very close to the sea. He also building in the middle of has his sights set on a lower ground- Eton High Street, once the floor swimming pool. Ramsay intends medical wing of Eton College, to use the estate in the upmarket area is now seven stylish flats. The of Rock for UK staycations with Aitch Group scheme, above, cookery writer Tana and their retains the red-brick diamond- children. They already have homes in patterned façade and Dutch gables. London and Malibu, California. With alumni including English actor Tom Hiddleston — seen right Kendall’s É SUPERMODEL Kendall Jenner has with his girlfriend, American singer bought a five-bedroom home in the Taylor Swift — to Princes William £5.3m Hollywood Hills from British actress and Harry, Eton has long been Emily Blunt and her American actor synonymous with wealth and place on husband, John Krasinski. privilege. The new two-bedroom, The 20-year-old sister of the two-bathroom apartments are Sunset Kardashians spent £5.3 million on the designed with this in mind, 4,800sq ft house, above, in Sunset appealing to those with a taste for Strip Strip. Social butterfly Kendall loves the finer things in life. the white walls, exposed brick and At £499,950 the homes will also the fabulous outdoor pool area with benefit from Crossrail completion in a cosy fireplace and barbecue. No 2019, with trains to the City, Canary doubt model pals Cara Delevingne Wharf and the West End running and Gigi Hadid will approve of the from nearby Taplow station. GETTY huge walk-in wardrobes. REX REX 8 WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2016 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | New homes WHERE SHERLOCK SLEUTHED There’s no place like Holmes’ Following the success of Chiltern Firehouse, the Portman family has gone for a major facelift of Baker Street, says David Spittles HERLOCK HOLMES, the fic- of 69 streets with 650 buildings, four tional detective who “lodged” garden squares and more than 1,000 at 221b Baker Street, has given homes. The estate used to own more this central London highway land, but the northern patch and a glamorous profile strangely Selfridges were sold in 1948 to pay taxes Sat odds with reality. With its humdrum after the death of the seventh Viscount shops, sterile-looking office blocks and Portman. traffic noise, any sense of neighbour- A veil fell over the district during the hood deserted Baker Street long ago. post-war period when it became a gen- But that is about to change. The fam- teel backwater populated by actors and ily-run Portman Estate, landlord of the retired doctors. By the start of this area’s 110 precious acres since 1554, has century, many buildings let on long woken up to regeneration. It has seen leases were starting to deteriorate. a successful formula work wonders at The makeover began five years ago Marylebone High Street, precinct of and is now in its stride. The vision has the Howard de Walden family estate, become far more ambitious, with plans and watched the glamorous Grosven- being unveiled for redevelopment of ors create welcoming and tempting high-profile buildings and tired-looking streets in Belgravia and Mayfair. streets, all aimed at giving this edge-of- In its 18th-century heyday, Baker West End neighbourhood a fresh iden- Street and its satellite streets were tity. More than £240million will be among the city’s top addresses. Now the invested during the next six years. Bill plan is to revitalise this neglected chunk Moore, Portman Estate chief executive, cobbled retreat off bustling Oxford police section house has been bull- the grand foyer of 55 Baker Street, once of London just north of Marble Arch. is an ex-Army man bringing organisa- Street, is another focus, part of a hub dozed to make way for 24 flats.