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' ' '& '" ' ' '$ #  4 WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: pop-up village to cut bill for housing families in B&Bs Property Bright and easy: in Lewisham, search architect Richard Rogers is designing 24 Trophy buy of the week temporary homes that will be captain of your ship stay up for four years £1,685,000: nothing says you’ve made it like uncompromisingly modern architecture. This marine- YOU’VE heard of pop-up restaurants, pop-up shops and inspired beauty is firmly landlocked in lovely rolling even pop-up theatres — now is to get its first countryside in Old Chelsfield, Kent, about 30 minutes from pop-up village. Lewisham council has asked internationally Bromley. You get four acres of grounds with paddocks and renowned architect Richard Rogers to design a temporary stables but it’s the five-bedroom house itself, with double- cluster of 24 two-bedroom houses which will stand for four height reception rooms, picture windows, swimming pool years on the site of a demolished leisure centre in Ladywell, and sundecks, that will turn home life into a cruise. Through before permanent homes are constructed. Lord Rogers Alan De Maid. hopes the scheme will become a cost-effective blueprint for other councils desperate to accommodate families on the O homesandproperty.co.uk/trophychelsfield waiting list who are currently housed in expensive B&Bs. O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week a high-spec hot homes: make it love at apartment in Clapham’s buzzing heart £675,000: this super-smart first-floor integrated appliances in the kitchen/ first site this Valentine’s Day flat just off Clapham High Street has dining area, open-plan to a spacious had a complete makeover to its ample reception room lit by large windows. living space, resulting in a bright, high- A secure underground parking space spec home perfect for entertaining. completes the deal. The Tube and Desirable details include under-heated Clapham Common are both a short walnut floors, bespoke built-in storage stroll away. Through John D Wood. in two double bedrooms — one en suite — plus white gloss cabinetry and O homesandproperty.co.uk/buychs Life changer a farmhouse in 11 glorious Cornish acres £1.15 million: a two-bedroom penthouse in Hammersmith £799,950: in Helston, Cornwall, Polkanugga Farmhouse Bridge Road, with a fire pit terrace for year-round romance comes with a holiday-let cottage, stables, paddocks and woodland, totalling 11 acres. There are wood burning stoves FALL for a heart-stopper this Valentine’s weekend — a in the country-style kitchen/diner and sitting room, four ravishing penthouse perched above the city with a heated bedrooms, two bathrooms and a conservatory. Workshops roof terrace, or perhaps a fairytale castle or a chocolate- outside would make more guest rooms, with beautiful box country cottage with a crackling inglenook fire. Join coastal walks nearby. Through Country & Waterside. By us on a whirlwind tour of Britain’s most romantic homes. Faye O homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechangerhelston Greenslade O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/romantichomes Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty

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recently teamed up AP with rapper Kanye West and Rihanna on the Barbadian singer’s new Any crocs in that creek, Liana? single, FourFive Seconds — lived at É PRODUCER John bedroom flat for £749,950. the house in Cornell, who discovered Based in Australia, she was Western Avenue Aussie star Paul Hogan and in The Winter’s Tale at the with his parents Jim wrote the screenplay for Sydney Opera House last and Mary until the Crocodile Dundee, bought year. On the market with mid-Fifties. Another two flats at Prospect Quay River Homes, the second- Liverpool home, in Wandsworth, left, in floor flat has a balcony with where Macca went on 1998 as an investment for views across the Thames to spend his teens, is his daughters. Now Liana towards the Hurlingham owned by the National Trust. Cornell, right, who Club and comes with porter The house for sale has a followed in her Australian services, plus a shared gym £100,000 guide price through father’s footsteps to and swimming pool. Merseyside agent Entwistle produce and act in film and Green (entwistlegreen.co.uk). theatre, is selling her two- O homesandproperty.co.uk/lia

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                                         6 WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with All the grandeur of Wolf Hall — without the risks Magnificent restoration and sensitive design are turning these historic trophy estates into homes for London commuters to the manor born, discovers David Spittles

EW homes set the heart rac- as a hospital for shell-shocked soldiers. ing more than grand apart- It became part of the NHS but was ments carved from heritage bought in 2012 by Weston Homes after buildings such as country a period lying empty. Bob Weston mansions, Victorian hospi- unleashed an army of craftspeople to tals,F former convents and colleges in restore the mansion and create 36 the leafy commuter belt. High-quality luxurious one- to four-bedroom apart- conversions that retain the best of the ments with double-height mezzanine old architecture while creating new spaces, and new villas in the grounds floorplans and interiors to suit modern carved from stables and an orangery. lifestyles always impress, and buyers’ The three-storey great hall with its appetite for them is keen. original oak staircase, gallery and glass It is about more than classic good cupola has become a communal space looks and a sense of history. Often for residents. English Heritage will not these homes are set in lavishly land- accept “false history”, so anything scaped grounds and reached via a car- reinstated must be as true to the origi- riage drive or tree-lined avenue, nal as possible. Weston Homes brought making for a marvellous sense of back into use a network of Tudor tun- arrival. Properties are usually lease- nels and wine cellars. Two stone lions, toration projects such as dilapidated shop for residents when the 162-home CROSSRAIL BONUS hold and residents pay service charges sculpted in 1838 and later stolen from Victorian asylums. As its name sug- project is complete later this year. Other City & Country projects include for amenities, such as a gym or con- the estate, have been returned to their gests, the company brings back the The listed grounds, originally planted The General, Bristol, a former hos- cierge, and for upkeep of grounds. But plinths at the entrance to the house, beauty of the original structure and by famed horticulturalist Gertrude pital being converted into 206 homes charges are rarely more onerous than while a restored Versailles-style stone adds metropolitan design glamour. Jekyll, are an early example of ”thera- priced from £285,000. The Galleries for typical city apartment schemes. fountain with four mermaids is the Chief executive Tim Sargeant works peutic gardens”, linking with the build- in Brentwood, Essex, another hospital “Refurbishment and reinstatement focal point of the 2.5-acre grounds. closely with heritage organisations to ings and the wider landscape. Five restoration, includes stunning loft-style of historic features is much more A two-bedroom show flat is open for return buildings to use. miles of footpaths are being created spaces. Prices from £420,000. expensive than building from scratch viewing. Prices start at £190,000 and King Edward VII Estate, near Mid- through the estate’s mature oak wood- David Simpson is managing director so it takes commitment and expertise rise to £700,000, with completion due hurst in West Sussex, lies within the land and heath. Residents will also have of developer Millgate. He and his team to make these projects work,” says this summer. Call 01279 873 333. South Downs National Park. Built in a swimming pool and gym. are recreating Woolley Hall, a grand developer Bob Weston, whose latest 1901 as a tuberculosis hospital, it has Trains to Victoria take just under an Georgian mansion near Littlewick challenge is Preston Hall, a magnifi- ARTS & CRAFTS PRIZE been hailed as an Arts & Crafts master- hour. The first homes go on sale next Green, a few miles from Maidenhead cent Jacobean mansion with a grand Heritage specialist City & Country piece and includes a Grade II*-listed month, with prices from £195,000 to station, which is 24 miles from London stone façade, stained-glass windows, understands this niche market better chapel with prized stained-glass win- £995,000. To register, call 01730 and soon to be Crossrail-linked. The high, ornate ceilings, rich wood wall than most, taking on challenging res- dows that is due to become a café and 817979. listed estate dates from 1780 and is set panelling and marquetry, and fes- tooned with turrets, towers, stone carvings and heraldic symbols. The house stands on the River Medway at Aylesford, Kent, with the journey to St Pancras just 34 minutes from Strood station. Built in 1102, Preston Hall was once the home of Joyce Culpeper, mother of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Cath- erine Howard. Sir Thomas Culpeper, another member of the family, was Catherine’s secret lover. Both were executed when their affair was discov- ered. In Victorian times the house was enlarged by railway baron Edward Betts, and in the First World War served

Historic magnificence: ornate ceiling and gallery, right, among features at Preston Hall, built in 1102 and enlarged in the Victorian era. Far right, the grand entrance. Flats from £190,000 EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 7 homesandproperty.co.uk with New homes Homes & Property

From £429,950: flats at Royal Connaught Park in Bushey, Hertfordshire, used in Harry Potter movies

From £825,000: apartments, houses and mews homes at Woolley Hall, an 18th-century listed estate in Berkshire woodland

Stunning: above, in 24 acres of woodland. Six grand a double-height apartments, up to 3,700sq ft, are being galleried created in the main house with original communal space wood panelling and fireplaces, ornate at Preston Hall, plasterwork and stained-glass win- where Tudor dows. Prices from £825,000. Five new Handsome, wine cellars have houses, from £3.1 million, are being well-connected been brought built in the gated grounds, plus mews homes: Woolley back into use houses and homes in a restored stable Hall is near block. Call 01628 674234. Maidenhead Royal Connaught Park in Bushey, station, soon to From £190,000: Hertfordshire, is set in 100 acres of have Crossrail apartments at parkland and was originally the Royal trains into Preston Hall, left Masonic School for Boys. The architec- central London a Kent Jacobean ture is grand Edward ian and it doubled mansion, once as Hogwarts school in some scenes in home to the the Harry Potter film franchise. family of Henry New homes have been created from VIII’s doomed the school’s ancillary buildings, which fifth wife, have big windows, vaulted ceilings, Catherine ornate stonework, wooden beams and Howard. Inset, plaster cornicing. Prices range from From £195,000: one of two stone £429,950 to £2.79 million. Call 01923 homes at King lions stolen from 222292. Edward VII the estate, now Estate near returned to their O For more pictures, visit Midhurst, West entrance plinths homesandproperty.co.uk/luxury Sussex 8 WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property First-time buyers homesandproperty.co.uk with

£340,000 first-time buy: above left, a two-bedroom, two-bathroom flat ideal for sharers at Twelvetrees Crescent, Bow (homesandproperty.co.uk/12trees). Above right, £305,000: flats at Lock Keepers, a Peabody scheme, with shared-ownership options available (homesandproperty.co.uk/lock) ALAMY Getting their feet wet: East End artists competing at Bow in the Annual Regent’s Canal Raft Race £100,000 flats. Can you Adam and Eve it? Huge regeneration is the Olympic legacy for Bow in the East End, with waterside homes and great transport. By Ruth Bloomfield

OW has turned out to be the limited. But Sarah Butler, sales director biggest winner of the London at Peabody, says: “There is a lot of regen- Olympics, with billions of eration going on in the area. There are pounds of regeneration two new developments going up, and money pouring into the E3 it is only 10 minutes by Tube to West- Bpostcode. Glue factories and slaugh- field. It benefits from waterside living terhouses have been replaced by smart — it is beside the Cut — and new flats perfect for the tie to the outdoors. You are also workers, and fashionable bars are alongside the River Lee and it is a 10- being hewn out of East End boozers. minute walk to the Olympic Park at Average local property prices now Stratford.” stand at about £400,000 but a new Devons Road DLR station, in Zone 2, waterside scheme from housing asso- is a short walk away, with direct links to ciation Peabody will provide starter Canary Wharf in 10 to 15 minutes. Lock homes from just over £100,000. Keepers, with 109 flats in three blocks, A 35 per cent share of a one-bedroom is also close to Bromley-by-Bow Tube, flat at Lock Keepers, with a full price with District and Hammersmith & City of £305,000, will come in at £106,750. line trains to the City in about quarter The estimated monthly outgoings of an hour, and services beyond. including mortgage, rent and service The old Bryant & May match factory, charge will be about £1,175. now called Bow Quarter, holds 700 A 35 per cent share of a two-bedroom homes, and the Georgian townhouses flat is £140,000 and there are also some of Tredegar Square sell for several mil- three-bedroom duplex properties lion pounds. Berkeley Homes and Bar- priced at £178,500 for 35 per cent. ratt London both have major local The area is rather industrial, a little projects and Crossways estate has been too close to the traffic-clogged A12 and revamped and renamed Bow Cross. Blackwall Tunnel approach for comfort, and on-the-doorstep facilities are O Visit peabodysales.co.uk   % ! % %$   !  $      & #    !           NEED Past: the suffragette movement was Landmarks: the seven Grade II-listed         "  % !  #   born in Bow when Bryant & May match gas holders at the Bromley-by-Bow TO girls went on strike for better conditions gasworks were built in the 1870s. !  "$   in 1888. In 1912 Sylvia Pankhurst set up Eat: Carmelite Café in Bow Road is a  $  $           KNOW the East London Federation of former nunnery turned into an upscale BOW Suffragettes at 198 Bow Road. coffee house with great sandwiches Future: the post-war Leopold Estate is and an adjacent art gallery. being replaced with 364 new flats — Drink: East London Liquor Company 108 affordable — by 2019. makes its own spirits including gin. Trivial pursuit: moving to Bow won’t Take a tour, buy a souvenir, or have a make you a Cockney — the saying drink in the industrial-style bar, in a about being born within earshot of the former glue factory. 0207 515 1491 bells of Bow church refers to St Mary- Buy: Growing Concerns in Wick Lane, www.av-e14.co.uk le-Bow Church which is in the City. an excellent garden centre, runs What it costs: an average home in regular community workshops. Bow costs £399,970 up 12.51 per cent Walk: Bow aces the green space test. in the last year, while an average two- You can walk through Park, via bedroom flat rents at £1,137 a month, Victoria Park and on to the Queen says Zoopla property website. Elizabeth II Park and Hackney Marshes. EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 9 homesandproperty.co.uk with Renting Homes & Property RENTAL HOTSPOT FACT FILE: WEST HAMPSTEAD Average rental values (per week) One-bedroom flat £300-£400 VEN 150 years ago, Two-bedroom flat £400-£600 housebuilders knew the Three-bedroom house £800-£1,100 importance of branding. For tights budgets, rentals start at £220 West Hampstead, in Zone 2, a week for studios, £285 a week for could so easily have been bigger ex-council flats. You’ll pay a calledE East Kilburn. Occupying a slope premium, about £650 a week, for a of land between two ancient highways large period conversion. heading north out of central London, Best roads: Crediton Hill, Kingdon its 1860s developers wanted homes Road, Dennington Park Road, Sumatra they built associated the with the Road and Holmdale Road are popular. monied hilltop village of Hampstead Typical tenants: mainly young single on the area’s eastern flank rather than professionals and no-kids couples Kilburn, a rural hamlet to the west. wanting to live in a good residential West Hampstead has been popular area. They get more for their money ever since. Those Victorians built than in Hampstead itself and new terraces. Then came a generation of restaurants, bars and shops are mansion blocks, followed in the 20th opening. A Waitrose is planned and new century by council estates and the developments are popping up, pushing conversion of houses into flats. up local rents. Buzzy and cosmopolitan, the area is Influences on the market: superb now a fashionable inner suburb, with transport links, with Bakerloo and handsome red-brick houses reverting Jubilee Tube lines — Bond Street is a few back to single homes . It is family- stops away — plus Overground rail and friendly with close proximity to highly proximity to Paddington, with its praised private schools, one reason ALAMY Heathrow link, and Crossrail for the why Bank of England Governor Mark Spine of the area: West End Lane in fashionable West Hampstead is packed with coffee shops, bakeries, bistros and bars future. There are three train stations, Carney has chosen to live there. one recently refurbished, and West Transport links are excellent, while Hampstead is a main interchange, with community spirit is “great”, says Jenni Thameslink, Tube and Overground Towler of Benham & Reeves Lettings. services, and good links to Stansted, “In a cultural sense, West Hampstead Gatwick and Luton airports. straddles the best of both worlds. It Make the connection borders Hampstead with its rich Major new developments: a former literary tradition and leafy seclusion, Great transport links, including Crossrail on the horizon, mean this spot business estate, West Hampstead and also Kilburn — edgy, bustling, Square has apartments, gardens, a new with a vibrant live music scene.” in Zone 2 is a hit with young professional renters. By David Spittles public square, Marks & Spencer, cafés Kilburn has several more things in and restaurants, a gym, dance studio, its favour. Firstly, it is close-in — spa and hotel-style reception with straight up Edgware Road from concierge (westhampsteadsq.com; Marble Arch and nearer to the centre ballymore.co.uk). Mill Apartments, a than, say, Hammersmith or Hackney. new scheme of 39 flats in Mill Lane, Transport links are very good — borders a nature reserve. Bakerloo and Jubilee line Tube, plus Out and about: there are lots of Overground rail and proximity to buzzing bars and good affordable Paddington, with its Heathrow link, restaurants. The train station forecourt and Crossrail for the future. doubles as a farmers’ market and street “It’s definitely up and coming,” says food hub, complementing West End Debbie Reiter of Benham & Reeves Lane, the spine of the area, with coffee Lettings. “It has street cred, which shops, bakeries, boutiques, bistros and young professionals like, while bars. Mill Lane, which cuts across corporate tenants favour the semis in railway tracks to Cricklewood, is the Matesbury conservation area.” gentrifying, with antique shops, delis All kinds of homes can be had at and gastropubs. prices still a fair bit lower than in Top local schools: South Hampstead trendy nearby areas — from converted High (private); Northbridge House flats to artisan cottages, Victorian New scheme: Mill Apartments, with 39 £650 a week: a three-bedroom period conversion flat in popular Goldhurst (private); Hampstead High (state), and terraces and Edwardian villas. flats in Mill Lane, near a nature reserve Terrace, NW6. Through Benham & Reeves (homesandproperty.co.uk/rentgold) Emmanuelle School (state). 10 WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Homes abroad homesandproperty.co.uk with Alpine fun with families From £146,000: Arlberg Chalets, Wald in mind am Arlberg. through Pure International Get the max all year out of a good-value chalet in Austria, says From £711,700: flats at Arlberg 1800 Cathy Hawker Residences. Through Pure (as before)

HE strong pound, at a seven- year high against the euro TOP-PRICE LECH this month, has made a Wolf has also developed at the very top home in the Eurozone 10 per end of the market in Lech itself. Four cent more affordable than at fully furnished, seven-bedroom luxe theT start of last year. Turmoil in Greece chalets at Chalech, connected to the could add to single currency woes. ALAMY stylish five-star Aurelio Hotel, will be “British buyers in the Alps certainly Year-round resort: St Christoph am Arlberg, where new flats share facilities of the Arlberg Hospiz Hotel, right of picture priced from £4,645,000. The hotel will realise there is an opportunity,” says manage and rent the chalets, each with Paul Kleinkorte from Pure International. APRÈS-SKI IS THE BEST IN EUROPE’ its own pool and spa, at daily rents up “Austria already has a reputation for to £28,500. “Lech has a top snow record value. Build quality is as good as in JULIAN and Julia Rooth from Arlberg region for its and is architecturally restrictive so you Switzerland but prices are far better, Ramsdell in Hampshire excellent and varied skiing in will never see ugly towers,” says Wolf. and resorts are small scale and family should get the keys to their Lech and St Anton, and the “Last season the Arlberg ski area con- friendly.” new Austrian home later security that these premium nected Lech with Warth to the east so this year. The couple, seen resorts would give to our that it now has over 90 lifts.” ROYAL RESORTS left with sons Nico and Ollie, investment. And it has the Pure International is also selling Pure is selling properties in the Arlberg 15 and 13, bought an off- best bar in the Alps — Arlberg 1800 Residences in St Chris- ski region in west Austria, 50 minutes plan, ski-in apartment at MooserWirt in St Anton.” The toph am Arlberg, winter base for the by car or train from Innsbruck. Like its Arlberg 1800 Residences. family intend to use their flat Austrian ski team. These two- to five- snow record, its pedigree is strong. “We were attracted to for four weeks winter-ski and bedroom flats will be built in two large Arlberg is home to super-chic villages Austria for its authentic up to six weeks in summer chalets in the heart of the thriving vil- such as St Anton, Lech and Zürs where resorts, tight planning for hiking, biking and golf. lage and will share the pool, spa, fitness European royal families love to ski. restrictions and the best facilities, restaurants and concierge of Princess Diana, William and Harry après-ski in Europe,” says O Pure International: the Arlberg Hospiz Hotel. Prices start were regulars at the Arlberg Hotel in Julian, 47. “We chose the 020 3695 4095 from £711,700 for 1,022sq ft. Lech and local second home owners Four apartments linked to the Arlberg include F1 driver Sebastian Vettel. Hospiz Hotel have already been com- Arlberg also has a strong summer pleted in the Skyfall development, season thanks to two 18-hole golf PROPERTIES FOR SALE mile away Sonnenkopf ski area is par- buyers coming from the UK, Austria including one bought and decorated courses and hundreds of miles of walk- Small, traditional and decidedly sleepy ticularly good for children. Prices start and across the border in Switzerland. by an English family. The five-bedroom ing and cycling tracks. Lech is one of Wald am Arlberg, just 20 minutes from at £146,000 to £370,850 for one- to “These new homes start from £340 per home with a kitchen designed by Linley Austria’s most beautiful villages, stuffed Lech and St Anton, lacks their high- three-bedroom properties with annual square foot,” says local developer rents for up to £37,500 a week. with award-winning restaurants and voltage fame — and their prices. In the service charges from £750. Reinhard Wolf. “Twenty minutes away bars, and all of this provides generous centre of Wald at Arlberg Chalets, Unlike most holiday homes in the in Lech you could pay up to £2,200 a O Pure International: pureintl.com rental yields, the highest in the Alps work is about to start on 35 flats and 21 Austrian Alps, there is no rental obliga- square foot for a resale apartment with O For an Austrian investment guide, averaging five to seven per cent, says chalets. A local bus service connects to tion on owners at Arlberg Chalets. So no rental restriction — that’s if you can visit Mark Warner Property: Kleinkorte. the ski lifts in Stuben, while less than a far 21 units are bought or reserved with find one for sale.” markwarnerproperty.com

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View to the Shard: the triangular glass wall where once were graffiti-covered bricks in the Kensal Rise converted loft Triangular window on the world An interior designer lifted the roof off a poky flat over a shop, creating space and light with a dramatic glass wall. By Jacky Parker

ARK NEWMAN was a was a poky top-floor, two-bedroom flat freelance interior above a shop, albeit with an unusual designer refurbishing apex, the designer snapped it up. He homes when he met removed three of the magnolia-painted Thomas Zieglmeier, a partition walls, ripped up the plywood Mfreelance architect, while sharing an floor, took out two fireplaces and raised office space in Ladbroke Grove 11 years the ceilings by about eight inches, to ago. “We sat next to each other and create an open-plan space that includes would often chat over our projects,” a kitchen and sitting and dining area. says Newman. “We then collaborated There is a separate bedroom, a shower on a couple of developments and room and a roof terrace, too. “It’s a very decided to start a company, Newman sociable apartment, with a great Zieglmeier.” A lesson in style: kitchen. I can chat to guests while I’m The duo have since risen to glittery Mark Newman in cooking and people can sit outside in heights transforming the homes of his kitchen, the summer,” he says. fashion industry and media types such where the bank as designer Alice Temperley and A-list of bespoke grey HE highlight is the transfor- make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury. gloss units is mation of the loft and its Partnering with building contractors beautifully previously graffiti-covered Zibi & Jack to deliver a design and build teamed with exterior gable end, where service, Newman Zieglmeier’s knack super-thin white the roof was lifted off. It is for clever space planning has proved a worktops in Tnow a spacious bedroom with a dra- hit in their stretch of west London, an Bianco Absoluto, matic triangular glass wall, which not area filled with narrow Victorian ter- a composite only fills the room with light but also races, often badly carved into flats. stone. The provides spectacular views across the Newman’s own home in Kensal Rise is appliances are capital, taking in local landmark Trellick a perfect example. Built at the turn of from Neff and Tower and even the Shard beyond. the last century, the property is today a the fridge is from “There were a few challenges with the feat of spatial innovation. Miele planning application and the build,” “It’s rare to find somewhere with a says Newman. “Mainly with the glass, loft space that has so much scope,” says Photographs: both on the plans and when hoisting it Newman. Seeing the potential in what Bill Kingston in, as access was restricted.” EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 15 homesandproperty.co.uk with My home Homes & Property

The bedroom: stairs, right, lead to the new loft space, left and far right, with a dramatic gable end window offering views over London. The bedroom walls are painted in Paint & Paper Library Slate IV, and the pale- lilac, wool carpet is from Heal’s. Glass balustrades allow more natural light in. The free- standing bath is by Victoria + Albert, with taps by Crosswater, both from Nuline (nu-line.net)                

The open-plan living area: the décor was kept neutral and muted for a timeless look. “I like colour but can only live with it for a short time before I want to change it,”            explains Newman. “And              white can be a little stark unless             it’s in a big              space.” A stylish            fumed-oak floor       from Element 7 runs throughout               (element7.co.uk)              

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VEN as a child, supermarkets heir Alex Sainsbury, 46, was London life: which I am so grateful for, because the surrounded by fabulous Alex Sainsbury site I have now is very, very wonderful things. His wealthy family loves the towers and living on the river itself is fantastic. collected art — his father of Barbican, left. 6a are modernists but the house is near fundedE the £50 million Sainsbury Wing With modernist where Whistler and Wilde lived, so we at the National Gallery — so it’s not 6a architects keyed into that history, making a case surprising that Alex grew up wanting of Bloomsbury, for English Heritage. an art gallery of his own. he “keyed into After two decades working in the con- history” to build HOME COLOURS/ temporary art world, in 2009 he his home in TEXTURES

founded Raven Row in an 18th-century BAL THIERRY Chelsea, above I was in my twenties when I moved in Grade I-listed building in . and unmarried, and I tried to imagine With the help of Bloomsbury-based 6A WHERE I LIVE quite close to the river. It has been a in Chelsea, I was eager to find some- what it might be like to live in a married architects, he spent four years restoring I live close to King’s Road. I grew up privilege to build two architectural where in Clerkenwell but never man- house — which I failed to do exactly. So the building as a non-profit contempo- there and have memories of it as a projects in London — a private house aged. It was taken over by the now it is an adapted batchelor pad. I rary art exhibition centre, renowned child, as I tried to navigate the Seven- and this gallery, both with young Brit- professional loft developers in those like warm colours, which is very Eng- for its original programming. ties scene; being sworn at by punks was ish architects, 6a. days. I was working for [the architect] lish. I think it’s our miserable weather “The hope,” he says, “is that it will pretty exciting. I’m very lucky, very Tony Fretton at the time and I showed that drives us to warm interiors. I work add to the London art scene in the privileged, because I had the opportu- MY HOME him a few places that were makeshift with a really wonderful house painter, same way that the or the nity to build my own home in Tite I looked for a site everywhere for five and quite difficult. And he said: “No, Richard Clark, who is out of the art South London Gallery has.” Street, down by the Embankment, years. It wasn’t just that I wanted to live no.” He wanted me to be ambitious, world but mixes his own paints. So

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From left: Martino Gamper makes O Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, cabinets coveted by Alex, who says Spitalfields, E1, is open Wednesday to Frank’s bar at Peckham car park is a Sunday, 11am to 6pm. Admission is free. cultural hotspot, and who enjoys taking Visit ravenrow.org.

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HOUSE can be much more designed for a booming middle class. It than just a house. For Judy was divided into lots of rooms, particu- Yu, the modern home she larly in the dark basement, which had a has created in Maida Vale for low ceiling and an ugly conservatory- herself, her husband and extension on the back. This extension theirA children, Lucas, four, and Marissa, butted up clumsily against the brick two, was a long labour of love in which retaining wall of the overgrown lawn, at she fulfilled a childhood dream. the end of which lurked a giant shed. Judy’s parents lived in Hong Kong for The house looked as if nothing had two years as Vietnam war refugees been done for 30 years. “It was like Miss before coming to Ipswich in 1979. Her Havisham’s house — it was eerie, my skin mother was Vietnamese and her father was crawling. The hall was dark and Chinese. “They didn’t have a pair of dingy. The guy had stuck CDs to the ceil- chopsticks between them,” she says. ing and once answered the door stark Judy was born in 1980, but her father naked.” But apart from a crumbling roof worked so hard she only saw him on the place was structurally sound, so Judy Sundays. In 1988 the family moved to and her husband put in an offer — and Islington and Judy grew up there, taking completed in June 2013. a degree in psychology before working She interviewed three architects whose in a law firm. In 2006 she met her future work her husband had read about in husband, and they married in 2009. design magazines and immediately liked Lucas was born in 2010. Chris Eaton, who paid a site visit. “I just “We were renting in Chelsea, I spent asked him what he saw, and he pretty years looking for the right family home much described what I wanted.” So Judy with a big garden and off-street parking,” hired him. It was the same with the she says. Judy drew a blank in Chelsea, builder. “I looked at three, met Jon Love- Gloucester Road and South Kensington. day, and loved him as a person.” Then, pregnant with Marissa, she wid- ened the net to Barnes, Richmond and SIMPLE SOPHISTICATION Putney. Finally, in 2013, she hired a prop- The architects’ design removed unneces- ■Twitter: erty searcher. sary internal walls and used a grown-up, @stockleyp “One day she rang about a house that sophisticated palette of dark wood, black wasn’t in our chosen areas and said, ‘You steel, bronze, travertine feature walls Photographs: have to see this, it ticks all the boxes, but and a lot of glass. All the planners Kilian someone else wants it so you have to rejected was a flat roof over the remod- O’Sullivan move right now.’” Judy set off at once to elled extension. and Maida Vale. The semi-detached house A cramped study at the end of the hall Adrian Lourie was in one of the late-Victorian terraces that blocked light went, to be replaced by smart Crittall glass walls — a trans- formative act that lightens the entire raised ground floor. Everything else on Join the luxury holiday that floor was streamlined and smoothed. A “library room” looking out home specialists... to the back garden through a boxy new Favourite family spot: Judy, Marissa and Lucas in bay window has a stunning fireplace wall the once-dingy basement space, now transformed of travertine. Black-stained engineered Many luxury properties deliver over 39 weeks!

                                                     

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oak floorboards echo the black steel of the Crittall frames. The lovely door han- dles are bronze, and the handrail down to the transformed basement is beauti- fully crafted bronze: formal and elegant. The lower floor’s muddle of little dark rooms and a nasty toilet were ripped out, as was the old conservatory. Now a spa- cious, serene white kitchen with soft grey Corian worktops flows around a central screen of shelves into a top-lit living space. This flows straight out to the garden through floor-to-ceiling slid- ing glass doors. FOR THE CHILDREN The old outside wilderness has become a chic three-tier affair. The glass doors lead to a smart entertaining area with concealed speakers and stylish planting. There’s a water feature in a long trough, and the middle section is edged with topiary — magnolia stellata, wisteria, alliums and acers. The end part is just for the children, with murals on the side walls, tough fake grass and a climbing tower designed by Judy. All the building, including remodelling the upper levels and dropping the floors of the attic rooms to give a decent head height, was done in 10 months. The base- ment is now big and bright. “We thought we would spend most time upstairs, but we spend it here where I can cook and keep an eye on the children.” This is a very grown-up house, but perhaps most of all Judy loves the chil- dren’s garden: “I never had this when I was growing up so really, it is for me.” GET THIS LOOK Project architect: Natalie Benes (stiffandtrevillion.com) Sliding doors to garden: from finelinealuminium.com W20 Crittall doors and fixed screens: D&R Design (dandrdesign.co.uk) Oak multilayer engineered board: parquet-flooring.co.uk Athens grey marble in library, black travertine in bathroom: from thestone collection.co.uk 3034 bronze door knobs: by Frank Allart (allart.co.uk) Builder: Jon Loveday (lovedayconstruction.com) Joiner: Conor Manning (manningbespoke.ie) Triple pendant Beat lamps in black, in cinema room; Flask pendants over dining table: all from tomdixon.net Hooked lamp in library: by Buster+Punch (busterandpunch.com) Globe blown glass pendants in bathroom: from hollowaysofludlow.com Kitchen: by Pedini, at pedinilondon. co.uk Pure linen voile curtains: JAB Anstoetz (jab-uk.co.uk) or from Design Centre Dining in: pendant lights by Tom Dixon Room to grow: upper floors were remodelled, attic room floors dropped for height Three tiers: view out to versatile garden Chelsea Harbour (dcch.co.uk)  30 WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Outdoors homesandproperty.co.uk with Grow roses — you know it makes scents From fruity to fresh, Fruity beauty: Lady Emma fill your garden with Hamilton, right, carries the the sublime fragrance distinct fragrance of of gorgeous blooms pear, grape and citrus Pattie Barron

DOZEN long-stemmed red certain roses. Wild Edric, like all the carry that fabulous tea rose fragrance, roses for Valentine’s Day is tough rugosa roses including the out- but if you like a smoky tang to your tea, all very well, but where is standing magenta Roseraie de l’Hay, Calkin recommends the divine butter- the fragrance? No produc- has a wonderfully rich, old rose fra- yellow Graham Thomas, which has a tion-line rose raised in a grance, but he points out that the pet- definite whiff of Lapsang Souchong. Aplastic tunnel can compete with the als also carry hints of watercress and The fruity notes in David Austin’s romantic thrill of the perfume from a cucumber, while the stamens are pure English roses derive from that original rose grown in your garden — provided, clove. Either way, you are guaranteed tea fragrance. I’m a fool for Lady Emma

of course, you choose the right one. MARIANNE MAJERUS a sublime perfume. Hamilton, a beauty with unusually If you are buying from the garden Some roses offer more of a full bou- vibrant tangerine blooms that carry a centre now — and this is a good time to quet. Summer Song, a short, bushy potent perfume redolent of the most get them into the ground, while they shrub with cupped burnt orange flowers delicious fruit salad. Calkin describes are dormant — many of the old roses that is perfect for pots, has the scent, it more precisely as a strong, fruity and shrub roses are best bets. You can says Calkin, of a florist’s shop, mingled fragrance with hints of pear, grape and still get your fragrance fix if you are with chrysanthemum leaves, ripe citrus fruits. If you, too, favour fruity- short on space by growing shrub roses bananas and tea. Petite and pretty Rose- scented roses, you will love apricot-yel- in big tubs, using soil-based compost. moor’s blush-pink rosette flowers offer low Jude the Obscure, with notes of The trick is to avoid made-to-measure a frisky fragrance: old rose, with hints guava, citrus and sweet white wine, patio and miniature roses which have of apple, cucumber and violet leaf. and Munstead Wood, renowned for its little or no fragrance. Today’s roses — hybrid teas, shrubs perfume of old rose with notes of black- Robert Calkin, notable perfume — are bred from the original tea roses berry, damson and blueberry that “nose” and former perfume lecturer, imported from China, and they did underscore the lush velvety crimson is fragrance consultant to David Austin smell strongly of black tea. Modern of the full blooms. Roses and, a keen rose grower himself, musk hybrids, soft yellow Charlotte, has the tricky task of describing for the rich peach Port Sunlight and deep HE ancient Damask roses are catalogue the various fragrance magenta Young Lycidas — voted most the ones used in the perfume attributes of each rose. “A rose’s fra- fragrant in US rose trials last year — all industry and one of this grance should have a simplicity of group, Quatre Saisons, with character but the composition should Clockwise from left: Scepter’d Isle clear pink, shaggy flowers be complex,” he says. Some roses, for carries the distinctive scent of anise; Treceives Calkin’s ultimate accolade: the instance, carry notes of myrrh, not the potted Princess Alexandra has hints of finest fragrance of any rose. When asked myrrh of the Bible, but Myrrhis odor- tea, lemon and blackcurrant; Summer to describe it, he is at a loss but says ata, or sweet cicely, which has distinc- Song smells like a florist’s shop; simply: “If summer sunshine had a tive anise-scented foliage. So if you like Munstead Wood’s colour reflects its smell, that would be it. the smell of fennel, Calkin suggests rich fragrance of dark berries; Port “At the opening of every term, I’d cut Austin’s first rose, deep pink Constance Sunlight offers a classic tea rose a bloom from my garden, pass it Spry, as well as a more recent descend- perfume around my students and tell them, ‘If ant, softer pink Scepter’d Isle. you can create anything as beautiful as Calkin even differentiates between O For outdoor events this month, visit this fragrance in your lifetime, you will

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MAZE of small streets and main roads of thundering traffic, a tangle of railway bridges, walls of dazzling street art and at every turn artA galleries, cafés, clubs, boutiques and bars — this is the eclectic mix that is Shoreditch, on the north-eastern edge of the City of London. After work and at the weekend, the pubs, bars and clubs are packed with City workers and revellers from across the capital. It’s all a far cry from the early days of Shoreditch’s transforma- tion 30 years ago, when buildings left empty by departing printers and fur- niture makers were populated by art- ists looking for cheap space. Then the fashion for loft living took off. Developers bought up former industrial buildings, carving them up into spaces which buyers fitted out themselves, sometimes hiring a fash- ionable young architectural firm.These were the Shoreditch pioneers and, according to Nick Kara- manlis at Stirling Ackroyd, they are still a force to be reckoned with. “The people who bought in Shoreditch 20 years ago bought very cheaply, and Spotlight even if they no longer live here, they remain attached to the area and prefer to rent out rather than sell.” So anyone looking to buy rather than rent a home Shoreditch in or near the famed Shoreditch Triangle, bounded by Old Street to the north, Shoreditch High Street to the east and Great Eastern Street to the west, must be prepared to wait. Except, as Karamanlis points out, Shoreditch is entering the next stage of its transformation, with new tower Choose loft living or cool new blocks already built, under way or at the planning stage. Some call this the “CanaryWharf-isation” of Shoreditch, Young techies and walk-to-work City staff Folgate, and planned homes, offices, most people have their favourites. claiming it will erase the area’s rough- shops, entertainment and public space Long-standing SCP in Curtain Road is around-the-edges charm. drawn to this arty, foodie spot will find a new at The Stage in Curtain Road. “We are popular for furniture and interior building on Shoreditch’s strengths. We accessories, while Labour and Wait in NEW DEVELOPMENTS generation of homes. By Anthea Masey are providing a mix of uses, restoring Redchurch Street stocks kitchen and The largest proposed development is the heritage, providing new routes garden paraphernalia with a functional The Goodsyard, a 10-acre site where through the site and a much-needed Fifties feel. British designer Ally Capel- Bishopsgate Goodsyard stood until it new park. There will be office space for lino in Calvert Avenue is a must for was destroyed by fire in 1964. The site, young and start-up businesses, building classic, handcrafted handbags, and next to Shoreditch High Street station, on the success of Tech City and Old Present is an independent menswear is a joint venture between Street’s Silicon Roundabout.” boutique in Shoreditch High Street. and Ballymore. Seven towers of up to Answering criticism that much of the There is no shortage of restaurants, 46 storeys are proposed, with 1,500 capital’s new housing is bought as trophy bars and cafés. Top of many people’s new homes, offices, shops, cafés and assets by overseas investors, Ballymore’s list will be Eyre Brothers in Leonard restaurants, and an elevated two and Jon Weston says he wants to build on the Street, specialising in Spanish and Por- a half-acre park above the restored trend of people moving back to live in tuguese food. Neil Borthwick’s pub and Braithwaite viaduct, one of the oldest central London. “We are proud of the restaurant, Merchants Tavern, is in railway viaducts in the country dating fact that 96 per cent of homes in the last Charlotte Road, while The Clove Club back to the 1830s. four schemes we have delivered in Tower in Shoreditch Town Hall is known for Robert Allen from Hammerson says Hamlets are occupied.” its innovative tasting menu. Shoreditch has always been a master of Other favourites include Rivington reinvention, and that The Goodsyard’s SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS Grill in Rivington Street, Queen of Hox- residential towers will be an extension It pays to wander round Shoreditch ton in Curtain Road, Jamie Oliver’s of Avant-garde Tower in and discover its hidden-away bars, Fifteen restaurant in Westland Place, Road, Principal Tower in Norton Green space: The Goodsyard plan will bring homes, offices, cafés and a new park cafés and independent shops, and Hoi Polloi brasserie at Ace Hotel in

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few properties we have been discuss- ing, so I arrange a car to take us to view Dry January’s SO a number of options I know will appeal to her. She is particularly impressed by a very grand and quintessentially Lon- over — let’s drink don building near which is being converted into luxury homes. Once outside she thanks me for my time, tells me she will be in touch once to brisk business she lands in Los Angeles, and is whisked away in a chauffeur-driven MONDAY black Mercedes. Unlike some of my more puritanical colleagues I didn’t do dry January — Diary of FRIDAY quite frankly I couldn’t face it during I am looking forward to a day in the the gloomiest part of the London an estate office to do some much-needed admin. winter — but it has still been a very suc- However, as soon as I sit down I get a cessful business start to the year. call from the Swiss-based businessman I spend this afternoon with a Swiss- agent who asks if we could meet for lunch to based businessman who has expressed go over an investment proposition he interest in one of the developments some very friendly Scottish-based buy- has been given. He says he trusts my we are marketing in Victoria, with 55 ers who are spending so much time, advice, which is very gratifying. Manhattan-style loft apartments. He’s and money in hotels, they have decided Intrigued, I agree to meet him at Como a man of few words but he seems very to buy a pied-à-terre. They are strug- Lario, an Italian restaurant in Holbein clued-up and keeps me on my toes. gling with the prospect of spending the Place off . same amount of money on a two-bed Over lunch he explains that he is no TUESDAY room flat in London as they would on longer proceeding with the apartment I pick up again with the same buyer and a beautiful lochside landscaped estate he mentioned to me on Tuesday, out- visit another three developments in in the Highlands. After a lot of search- lines the new proposition and asks for various parts of the city. After two ing I have identified a few good options. my opinion. I advise against it, outlin- meetings and a few hours together his Following much deliberation they ing my reasons and he grins when I initial reserve is softening. I learn about make an offer on a flat in Westminster guess at who brought the property to his business interests and his son, who which is accepted by my client, to prospective buyer, who is a very ele- filled with afternoon sunlight, a rare him. We discuss another deal and I is beginning a course of study in a everybody’s delight. gant and no-nonsense Middle Eastern smile appears on her face. return to my office to put together an boarding school out of town — hence matriarch, is less than amused when offer. It’s a good end to a good week — the father’s desire to get a flat in Lon- WEDNESDAY she learns she will have to wear previ- THURSDAY which certainly merits a drink. don. Unfortunately, I can’t offer him A very prestigious development in ously used steel-toed boots and a hard A surprise phone call comes in for me anything that matches his exact Kensington is in my book for a visit hat, and climb several flights of stairs. from a very glamorous Shanghai-based O Adam Simmonds is an associate in requirements and he feels he has some- today. It is in the latter stages of build- There is nothing else for it, so we begin lady who looks after her family’s invest- Strutt & Parker’s London residential thing better elsewhere, so for now, I ing so we are able to go into specific our upward journey but once inside ment portfolio outside of China. She is development and investment team move on to the next client. Later I meet units by appointment. However, the the fifth-floor, west-facing apartment in town for the day and wants to see a (020 7318 4688).