EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 1 HomesWednesday 22 April 2015 & What is Luxury? Find out at the V&A’s new show on Saturday Property Page 14 RIP-OFF RENTAL FEES P7 INTERIORS: GRAPHIC ART P10 TATTY SHACK TO FABULOUS HOME P24 SPOTLIGHT ON BARNES P34 Cool kids get the picture Whitechapel’si on the hot tips list for 2015: Pages 4-6 LONDON’S BIGGEST AND MOST-READ PROPERTY GUIDE DANIEL LYNCH DANIEL 2 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: Archway gets a Property second chance to be posh search Gone is the hated gyratory: how Archway could look Trophy buy of the week by 2017 mixing the old with the new £4.5 million: Regency, private and exclusive are buzz words for Scarth House, a 19th century property in a tree- lined avenue close to Barnes Village. The library/study and elegant drawing room befit a grand country pile, but the kitchen is a design showcase, perfect for entertaining. A HIDEOUS Seventies gyratory system was the blight that It leads through to a spacious conservatory overlooking brought down Archway, which can boast nothing more the 110ft walled garden. Five plush bedrooms and four than a line of tatty shops at its heart. bathrooms span the upper floors. Through Sell My Home. But Transport for London is riding in to rip up the hated one-way system and replace it with two-way streets, cycle O homesandproperty.co.uk/trophy lanes and a central piazza. Work is expected to start next year and will be completed by 2017. Then Archway can finally blossom. London buy of the week super-chic At present, house prices are a comparative steal at an average of £622,753. Half a mile up the hill in Highgate, Victorian flat offers room to expand the average house price is £1.32 million. £495,000: seek out this first-floor There is potential to acquire the loft O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk Victorian conversion flat in a leafy space and, subject to planning, convert area minutes from Battersea Park. it into a third bedroom or home office. A private entrance at street level Nearby there is a fitness centre leads into the well-proportioned and a good choice of restaurants on home, which features two double Battersea Park Road for that post- bedrooms and a chic kitchen/dining workout meal. Through John D Wood. and living room space, with a small balcony overlooking the rear gardens. O homesandproperty.co.uk/botw Life changer push the boat Visit our new online out for farmhouse by the sea luxury section £775,000: set sail for the Isle of Wight and a charming old farmhouse in glamorous Cowes. 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London’s charming mews houses offer a peaceful village vibe in the O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/mews EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 3 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property By Amira Hashish Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews £3.95 million buys Ingrid Bergman’s REX Chelsea apartment Epstein’s Barnet number is fab for a family É THE 68th Cannes Film Festival gets into full swing on May 13. É BEATLES manager Brian Epstein rooms and a spacious garden, while This year’s official poster pays — pictured above with the Fab Four’s Mill Hill Park is just around the tribute to Hollywood legend Ingrid George, John and Paul — lived in a corner. Estate agent Godfrey & Barr Bergman, below. The festival Tudor-style house in Mill Hill, suggests the 1,712sq ft home has describes Humphrey Bogart’s Barnet, that’s now on the market scope for an extension. Casablanca co-star — who also for £1.12 million. Meanwhile, in Liverpool, a Beatles- worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Epstein, who was enlisted into themed luxury hotel is for sale at Grant and Gregory Peck — as a America’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame £11 million. Hard Days Night Hotel, a “modern icon, an intrepid actress last year, bought the four-bedroom hit with fans since it opened in 2008, and a figurehead for the new realism”. property during his Sixties success is on the markt with CBRE. The late actress’s former home in with the band. It is an ideal family Cheyne Gardens SW3 is fittingly home with two large reception O homesandproperty.co.uk/brian glamorous. Now on the market with John D Wood for £3.95 million, the refurbished two-bedroom flat in a well-maintained but secluded location has views over the gardens of Cheyne Walk. The property comes with a terrace and is convenient for the shops, bars and restaurants of Kings Road. REX Home fit for a king. and for Naomi GETTY É THE Pullens Estate is home to by supermodel Naomi Campbell, Roberts stands to make a pretty penny some of London’s last remaining above, who grew up there, in Iliffe Victorian tenement buildings. Street. A one-bedroom flat on the É JULIA ROBERTS is selling her with her husband Danny Moder for A popular location for several second floor of the building where retreat in Hawaii. The six-bedroom £9.4 million in 2011. high-profile movies, the estate can she lived is for sale. As well as a house, above, was built in 1915 by For those with slightly smaller be spotted in The King’s Speech, large private terrace, there is a sugar plantation executive Hans Peter budgets, there is still an opportunity starring Colin Firth. The 2010 film communal terrace on the roof. Fayé and incorporates a one-bedroom to stay at the picturesque getaway as made the most of the preserved The £450,000 apartment, in guest cottage in the grounds. the house is also on the rental market external façade and authentic need of a revamp, could make for a The Pretty Woman star, who is now for £1,000 per night, with the cottage REX interiors. Charlie Chaplin was once smart investment. filming Money Monster with George an extra £235 per night. a resident, and the estate, in Clooney and Dominic West, is asking O homesandproperty.co.uk/berg Newington, is looked upon fondly O homesandproperty.co.uk/trophy £20 million for the house she bought O homesandproperty.co.uk/julia 4 WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with Big business: Royal Docks, right, is set to become London’s next major financial district. Hale Village, left, is proving a popular place to live for young professionals Property predictions Tide is turning for the better in the booming outer zones Buyers who head for promising new London frontiers get rewarded for their courage, says David Spittles HERE do you start the role of tipster again, predicting 10 or even 20 years — for the full homes to date, a 1,200-room student station, replaces an industrial estate looking for a new areas that will rise the most between impact to be felt. So you have to campus, a supermarket, a Diocese of and has 260 homes priced from home? London is now and 2018. And Crossrail figures weigh up whether the wait is worth London community centre and a £249,950. Call Bellway on 0845 676 brimming with prominently in the report. At the it. Crossrail is scheduled to open in specialist kidney care unit run by 0261.