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The house, with views over a communal garden and St James’s Church, is full of character and has been in the same family for 58 years. It is listed with Savills for £5.25 million. REX Bean there... starry £2.5m mews house sale buys É A PRESTIGIOUS Belsize Park Thisjudge is the mews, famous for its well-known residents, has a house for sale. headlineNick’s that The four-bedroom, three-bathroom property, above, is at the head of goesX Factor like this cobbled Daleham Mews, where the barn likes of former Bond villain Sean By Amira Hashish Bean, below, late actor Roy Kinnear — father of Spectre star Rory — and Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews photographer Sir Cecil Beaton lived. It has a large private roof terrace and is available through Heywoods Estate Agents for £3.5 million. Lea’s cottage is É THE lakeside pile chosen by Nick Grimshaw, right, as his X Factor picture perfect judge’s house is on sale at £2.5 million. The Barnhouse, above and below, at É ACCLAIMED photographer Robyn luxurious Cotswolds development The Lea, right, who has worked with a Lakes by yoo, is so stunning that the long list of the world’s most beautiful boys in Grimshaw’s category, pictured, people, including supermodel were more than happy to stay in the Claudia Schiffer, is selling her UK instead of jetting off abroad. cottage, below, for £1.55 million. The five-bedroom home is also the The colonial-style property, only an launch project for Kate Moss’s new hour’s drive from New York City, has career as an interior decorator. five bedrooms and a beautiful Inspired by the idea of stumbling outdoor dining area, making it a across a hidden gem in the forest, the great place to entertain. model used colour pops, handcrafted Lea, whose work has frequently furniture, and art by Jake and Dinos graced the pages of the New York SOTHEBY’S Chapman and Damien Hirst. Times, Vogue, Architectural Digest, the Financial Times, Velvet, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle Decoration UK, has a great eye for interior design. She has created a rustic look around original features such as a limestone fireplace and a stone sun room with French doors — an irresistible space. O For more celebrity gossip, visit homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip REX REX Gated development set in beautiful landscaped gardens. 2 minutes walk to East Putney tube* • Underground parking Concierge • Private gym • Share of freehold • 999 year leases www.oakhillpark.co.uk Savills New Homes 020 3430 6920 MOVE IN THIS YEAR [email protected] * Walking times are approximate and courtesy of www.walkit.com savills.co.uk 2 WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 2015 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | Online stop press: Lifechanger of the week open a boutique hotel in a listed riverside mansion ALAMY Fighting change: Gloucester Place is currently a one-way street, and many local residents want to keep it like that Trophy blow the bonus on exclusive £10m Coombe Hill Estate retreat Marylebone £9.95 million: this fabulous kitchen for a view of the garden. Go new-build on the desirable Coombe down to the basement for the spa Hill Estate — between Wimbledon complex, swimming pool and and Kingston upon Thames — is an cinema, or up the majestic staircase doesn’t want 11,000 sq ft bonus-buster. to the six bedrooms, two of them From the magnificent triple-height with balconies overlooking the entrance hall, choose one of the six neighbouring golf course. reception rooms or head straight to it both ways the 45ft glass-walled David Linley O Through Savills (020 8012 3129) ARYLEBONE issue No Two Ways party to £1.35 million: a Grade II-listed residents are fight a council by-election Queen Anne mansion on the London buy of the week Southfields rebelling over last month, coming second banks of the River Severn could plans to turn to the Tories. make a fabulous boutique hotel. garden flat perfect for open-plan living Baker Street Almost 1,500 residents The imposing house in historic £675,000: what’s not Mand Gloucester Place into took part in a consultation Upton-upon-Severn, to love about the two-way streets. exercise — a record partici- Worcestershire, sits in beautiful simplistic clean lines They claim the £15 million pation, according to Graham formal gardens. and bright feel that proposal from Westminster King, head of strategic trans- Set at the end of a no through this Southfields garden council and Transport for port planning and public road, it has seven bedrooms — flat offers? London will cause traffic realm at the council. About three of them en suite — and The ample living chaos, turn quiet side streets 60 per cent objected to the a mass of entertaining space, space has been into rat runs and slash the plan, citing congestion, pol- including three reception rooms converted behind the value of their homes. lution and rat running. and a library. It also has a elegant façade of an The two streets currently But the council is deter- separate staff cottage and a barn, Edwardian house, form a one-way system mined to push ahead, with which could easily be converted featuring high ceilings running from Regent’s Park further consultation planned to a guest annexe. In all, there is and sash windows in room incorporates a doors opening on to a to Oxford Street. A poster “over the coming weeks”. A more than 4,000 sq ft of space, two double bedrooms high gloss and granite large patio and decked campaign has been launched spokesman said: “We will not counting the cellar. with fitted wardrobes kitchen, along with private garden. demanding “No Two Ways”, look at redesigning various and wood floors. dining and living areas. and local resident Steven elements before going back O Through Hamptons By Faye At the rear of the flat, The room has a skylit O Through John D Dollond founded the single- out to public consultation.” International (01202 066061) Greenslade an open-plan reception roof, plus huge bi-fold Wood (020 8870 8811) O Find Ruth Bloomfield’s full story at homesandproperty.co.uk Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty 1,000 tickets to give away Editor: Janice Ideal Home Show at Christmas, November 25-29 Morley THE Ideal Home Show at Christmas VISIT homesandproperty.co. — sponsored by Gocompare.com — is uk/rules for details of our back in town at Olympia London to usual promotion rules. 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By November, they are eager to sell and clear the books on the year’s projects before the new year brings a wave of fresh launches. The latest Land Registry figures show ROTHERHITHE HENDON that higher stamp duty charges intro- Barratt is offering incentives at several schemes where The Lawns, Hendon, above, is a scheme of Edwardian-style duced earlier this year are clearly tak- homes are ready to move into. Furnished penthouses at mansion flats set in communal gardens with a tennis court. ing a toll.