Wednesday 11 February 2015 Warm up in Homes& Leagoo land Radiators Property Page 12 NEW HOMES IN ‘WOLF HALL’ P6 BOW FOR YOUNG BUYERS P8 RENTAL HOTSPOTS P9 MY AMAZING WINDOW P14 So Shoreditch Live in the un-Square Mile: Page 34 GRAHAM HUSSEY $' $ %!&''' ' ''&'" ' ''$# 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 London 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. 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Faye O homesandproperty.co.uk/lifechangerhelston Greenslade O Visit homesandproperty.co.uk/romantichomes Facebook: ESHomesAndProperty • Twitter: @HomesProperty • Pinterest: @HomesProperty Editor: You be the judge adorably Janice Morley WE ARE looking for 20 people, each soft... with a passion for property, who are VISIT homesandproperty.co. avid readers of Homes & Property uk/rules for details of our and would like to join our judging usual promotion rules. When panel for the 2015 Evening Standard you respond to promotions, New Homes Awards. offers or competitions, the You will work with industry experts London Evening Standard and to choose the best homes and its sister companies may schemes in London and the South- contact you with relevant East. A shortlist will be drawn up by offers and services that may the experts, who will visit each site — be of interest. 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House, 2 Derry Street, will need to be free on the evening of Thursday, March 5 to attend the selection Kensington, London W8 5TT. process in Kensington (refreshments provided) and all day on Thursday, April 9 for the final judging day. Please email your application to [email protected] EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2015 5 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property Homes gossip By Amira Hashish J-Lo’s garage — with an integral house ÉJENNIFER LOPEZ is selling her Los Angeles mansion. The nine-bedroom house, bought with ex- Buy X Factor husband Marc Anthony in 2010 for £5.4 million, is on the market for Ben’s base £11.2 million. All-singing, all-dancing Lopez, right, É FOR Hollywood-style living installed her own dance studio, close to home, the X Factor house recording room and 20-seat cinema has been spruced up since latest at the 17,129sq ft property, which also winner Ben Haenow, left, and his Bid £100,000 for the terrace comes with a garage that has room fellow contestants moved out a for eight cars, and a motor court with month ago to start their UK tour. home where Macca grew up space for 20 more. The eight-bedroom, four- Meanwhile, Lopez, mother of twins bathroom property, on the market Got some É WHERE can you still buy a three- Emme and Max, six, is said to be with Statons for £2,795,000, is now gossip? bedroom house for £100,000? The looking for her next investment. looking immaculate. Spread over Tweet answer is Liverpool, and this one four floors, the 6,400sq ft house in @amiranews was the childhood home of former Hadley Wood, Barnet, has a Beatle Paul McCartney. The contemporary fitted kitchen three-up, two-down overlooking the landscaped rear terrace house is being garden, which includes an impressive sold at auction on swimming pool, above. There is also a February 26 at the gym, where Fleur East and Jake Cavern Club, the Quickenden worked out, plus a wet Liverpool nightspot room and sauna. It’s a 30-minute where the Fab Four got commute from Moorgate. their first break. Sir Paul, 72 — who SPLASH O homesandproperty.co.uk/xfactor 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 ! 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 Ftals, 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.