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Head to £21 million: living a stone’s throw from and boasts an impressive open staircase. oldest live music past. Serial killer John Chris- Llanrhian on the west Wales coast, within Harrods and Sloane Street certainly comes Media and games rooms, a wine store and Ppubs, are upsetting locals tie is said to have worked in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with a hefty price tag, but it’s one that three bedroom suites opening to a private trying to raise millions of the bar during the Forties. where this traditional farmhouse presents a buys unparalleled luxury, found at this terrace are downstairs, with plush dining pounds to buy it and save it Swade, the property invest- dream home/business package. triplex apartment at Kingwood — an and reception areas, an open-plan kitchen for the community. ment firm that bought the It comes with three one-bedroom holiday exclusive boutique development in the and lounge area, plus a study/library The Victorian pub forms pub in 2013, has indicated it cottages, planning permission for a fourth, heart of Knightsbridge. upstairs. Chauffeur service, 24-hour part of the backdrop to the wants to sell but music pro- and two guest suites, all with serene sea The 5,700sq ft top-spec home has views concierge and a luxury spa are among the annual Notting Hill Carnival. moter Vince Power, who views from an idyllic setting, in landscaped over prestigious Hans Place garden square perks. Call Knight Frank (020 3858 3536). In the Sixties Tom Jones was used to run the KPH, fears it gardens of just over one and half acres. The paid £10 for his first London will become a boutique farmhouse itself has been restored using gig in the upstairs theatre hotel-bar rather than remain oak, slate and Travertine floors in character London buy of the week put your stamp bar, while in the Seventies a regular boozer. living areas that include a drawing room with a wood burner, a character dining room on a designer conversion flat near the Heath O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk lit by French windows that overlook the sea, plus two en suite bedrooms. £399,950: there’s nothing quite like a Along with the sweeping gardens, there is blank canvas to start afresh in, especially an option to buy some 16 acres of one that has been finished to as high a pastureland and woods. Britain’s smallest standard as this Temple Fortune flat in city, St Davids, is about seven miles away. 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