Wednesday 12 November 2014 Get cosy with Homes& Grayson Perry What’s on in London Property Page 17 NINE ELMS STANDS TALL P6 CROSSRAIL: WHERE TO BUY P8 FABULOUS BED LINEN P16 SPOTLIGHT ON BARNET P36 UK’s young designers Out to conquer the world Page 22 PATRICK QUAYLE PATRICK 4 WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property Online homesandproperty.co.uk with This week: homesandproperty.co.uk news: now you can cuddle up with your car Property search The car as art: this Knightsbridge house, priced Trophy buy of the week £16.5 million, is following a US steer for those harbour lights craze for glazed integral garages £9.95 million: your Chelsea Harbour neighbour, actor Sir Michael Caine, may be moaning about Labour’s threatened mansion tax but this jaw-dropping penthouse THE dream home for a wealthy car enthusiast has come with 2,500 square feet of lateral, white gloss-tiled on the market in London — a £16.5 million Knightsbridge entertaining space is surely worth the pain. end-of-terrace house with an integral glass-panelled It has a wraparound terrace with 360-degree views, garage that allows the buyer to drool over their prized including over the harbour, while the master bedroom O Visit homes motor from the comfort of the study. covers 1,000sq ft and comes with a divine en suite cinema screen and air conditioning throughout. There are andproperty.co.uk/ The concept of car-as-artwork comes from America, bathroom, wet room and central bathtub. The apartment three further en suite bedrooms and secure underground trophychel where houses regularly feature glazed car parking areas, has direct lift access, 24-hour security, a 132in drop-down parking for two cars. Available through Foxtons. but this is a first for London. O Read Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk London buy of the week a roomy London homes: garden flat in sought-after Stroud Green bag one for under £250,000 £475,000: leafy Stroud Green is well spacious reception room/open-plan worth a look if you want to live in a kitchen that’s lit by a large bay window What’s the conservation area with good transport and door out to the private garden. The catch?: a studio links and green open spaces — it sits airy feel continues in two bedrooms flat in this next to vibrant Finsbury Park. 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Usual rules apply, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/rules for details EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 5 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property Buy Tom’s ski pad £10,000 a week to for a cool £37m Homes gossip live like the Robster ÉTOM CRUISE has put his estate in By Amira Hashish the ski resort of Telluride, Colorado, ÉROBBIE WILLIAMS’S former on the market for £36.9 million. home in Little Venice is back on the In addition to a 10,000sq ft, four- Rent a shabby-chic rental market. The four-storey bedroom main residence, above, period villa, above, near Regent’s there is a three-bedroom guest celebrity haunt Canal, is listed with Savills for house on site. The views of £10,000 a week. mountain peaks are splendid and ÉA MAGNIFICENT “distressed” With five bedrooms, it would be Telluride airport is 10 minutes 6,000sq ft Dalston warehouse, perfect for hosting Christmas guests, away, making the estate an ideal above left and right, is for rent. with a large reception room, study retreat for A-list fans of the slopes. MC Motors in Millers Avenue, area and a gym to work off the turkey The Mission: Impossible megastar, E8, is regularly used for and trimmings. Communal gardens below, 52, who is reportedly dating shabby-chic photo shoots. with tennis courts and a play area Australian model Miranda Kerr, 31, Got some Singer Jessie J, left, model offer another incentive. ex-wife of British screen heart-throb gossip? Cara Delevingne, and The singer, left, has a two-year-old Orlando Bloom, is selling up via Tweet Game of Thrones stars daughter, Teddy, with wife Ayda Sotheby’s International Realty. @amiranews Lena Headey and Emilia Field and last month tweeted live Clarke have all been video footage from the American seen there recently, so actress’s bedside while she was in it’s the obvious spot labour with their son, Charlton. The for a starry Christmas young family now split their time Party. Visit castle between a 46-room Holland Park gibson.com. Price on mansion and a home in Los Angeles. application. GETTY GETTY O homesandproperty.co.uk/rentrobbie Now that’s a (political) party house ÉIF YOU enjoy a drink, a flutter the National Gallery and his wife and playing power politics, then this Amelia Long, Lady Farnborough, was three-bedroom house, right, in a renowned artist and garden Elstree Hill, Bromley, is for you. designer. While her work can be It was the home of the early found at Tate Britain and the V&A, 19th-century politician and art some remains in the Elstree Hill house connoisseur Charles Long, 1st Baron and is sure to interest art collectors. Farnborough, whose friends and Available through Sinclair political allies, including William Pitt Hammelton, the Italian-style villa and William Wilberforce, enjoyed needs modernising but at £500,000 gambling and drinking parties on its it could be a solid investment. “casino terrace”. 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