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Homes&
Wednesday 16 March 2016
London
Property
goes tropical
Brazilian style
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AFFORDABLE ALDGATE P6 MR LONDON: TERRY FARRELL P8 DOCTOR THORNE’S CASTLE COMBE P10 SPOTLIGHT ON BROCKLEY P30
A fun way
to work
Co-living: the latest trend
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Homes & Property | News
Bubble bath tycoon sends
£15m down the drain
H
E MADE his fortune produc-
ing children’s bubble bath Trophy
in Darth Vader-shaped
bottles. Tomorrow, Robert
home of
Beecham is set to be given
permission to spend a large chunk of his
the week
wealth demolishing a £15 million Prim-
rose Hill house, built only 26 years ago,
15-acre rural
so he can build an even larger, Regency- retreat for you
style property in its place.
The new house will come with a 200ft- — and your
long basement under the garden with a
banqueting hall for 80 diners, a Turkish
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collection
Despite objections from local residents £4.75 million: when one’s seamlessly with its rustic reception, kitchen and dining
Camden council’s planning committee weekday home is a Mayfair setting of woodlands, ponds areas. A divine indoor pool,
is expected to approve the proposals He cleaned up: and a room just for cigars but he and mansion, weekends can be a and paddocks — complete gym and games room take
when it meets, after hearing that Mr Robert Beecham, his wife Claire, 54, will also have a gym, bit of a letdown. But not if with grazing Highland cattle care of leisure pursuits,
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tion of almost £600,000 towards afford- bathtime fun for juice bar and a “tepidarium” — a heated retreat in peaceful Tidmarsh, streams fed by the River the views. Garaging with
able housing in the borough. kids, now wants relaxation and massage room like those West Berkshire, conveniently Pang. space for a small supercar
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Bake Off Paul’s staying put in his cosy kitchen
É GREAT British Bake Off star Paul
Hollywood’s Grade I-listed home in
Canterbury, right, has been whipped
back off the market less than four
weeks after it was put up for sale.
The four-bedroom, 13th-century
property was on Fine & Country’s
books for £795,000 but it has now been
removed from listings and is no longer
for sale. The house has oak beams,
Childhood home 15th-century arched leaded windows
and open fireplaces. The cobblestones
of heart-throb Dirk in the cellar are thought to date back
for sale at £1.1m to a Roman road.
Fans of Hollywood, inset, and his
wife Alex will recognise many of the
É AMID poppy fields in East Sussex, rooms, which often feature on their centre stage. A manageable
a Grade II-listed house that was once Instagram and Twitter accounts. The commute from London, it
home to British Fifties matinée idol kitchen, left, is surprisingly modest, would seem the star isn’t ready
Dirk Bogarde, below, is for sale. though a Rangemaster cooker takes to part with his home after all.
The late actor, who went on to star
in films including The Servant (1963)
and Death in Venice (1971), lived in the
flint cottage in his youth. He always
had fond memories of this childhood
home, calling his memoir Great
Meadow after the view from its Homes
gossip
windows. There are four bedrooms
and a study as well as a patio and a
mature garden in half an acre.
In a secluded spot, it’s a five-minute
walk from Alfriston Village which is
home to pretty, historic buildings
including the Clergy House, the first
property bought by The National By Amira Hashish
Trust. The nearby station has a direct
link to London Victoria, making it
ideal for commuters seeking a
country escape. The house is on Rager
Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews Kanye raps
& Roberts’s books for £1.1 million. Ikea’s praises
Prepare for a bidding war with Brangelina É SINCE announcing that he
É PARIS’S prestigious Tour d’Argent had run up £37 million of debt
restaurant, right, is selling off 3,000 indulging his love of fashion
items of tableware and furniture, and buying a £20 million LA
ready for a makeover. mansion with wife Kim
Fans past and present of the Kardashian, Kayne West has
restaurant include Winston Churchill, become a big fan of Ikea.
John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Pictured with Kim, right, the
Grace Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, Salvador rapper, once considered one of
Dalí, Orson Welles, Brangelina and the the richest men in music, visited
Queen, and it has featured in literary the Swedish HQ of the home of
works including In Search of Lost bargain furniture, above, and
Time by Marcel Proust. tweeted “super inspired by my
The online sale, handled by French wineglasses. It will make way for a visit to Ikea, really amazing
auction house Artcurial, includes 100 new phase in the Tour d’Argent’s company… my mind is racing
rare spirits from the world-famous history, marked by a redesigned logo, with the possibilities.” Could West
wine cellar, plus the 16th-century revised menu and renovated interior. be about to go into collaboration
Aubusson carpet that once covered Visit artcurial.com on May 9 to snap with the chain? Ikea wouldn’t say.
REX
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the restaurant ceiling, and 200 lots of up a slice of Parisian history.
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Homes & Property | New homes
A
NEW property trend is
taking hold in London —
“co-living”. While it sounds
like a revival of the coun-
terculture of anarchist col-
lectives and hippy communes of the
Sixties and Seventies, co-living is some-
thing quite different. It is an imagina-
tive, modern response to high housing
costs and commuting hassles, while
also chiming with the green agenda and
concerns about work-life balance.
Co-living projects allow mostly young
Londoners to live and work under one
roof and be part of a like-minded group
happy to share space, facilities and
services.
Peabody, the big housing charity, is
the latest developer to launch a
scheme, unveiling 580-home Fish
Island Village in Hackney Wick, east
London. This is a collaboration with
The Trampery, which provides “incu-
bator” work studios for design and
digital start-up companies, freelancers
and early stage entrepreneurs, and
which supports more than 500 jobs.
THE ARTY EAST END
Commute? Not us: WeWork already provides co-working spaces and is soon As London’s population swells and
to launch WeLive, above, with flats above London offices. Residents’ benefits pressure on the transport system
will include fitness classes, communal dinners, cleaning and laundry services increases, city planners believe “inte-
grated” schemes like this have a huge
LIVING WHERE YOU WORK part to play.
“We’re taking everything we’ve
PROVIDING serviced co-working residents and workers, it will operate learned over six years building work- LAUREN KALLEN/WEWORK
spaces for start-ups, small businesses like a private club, with member space communities and shaping it into
and entrepreneurs, WeWork has nine benefits and social events. Fitness a place where people live as well,” adds
buildings in central London and is classes, communal dinners, cleaning Trampery founder Charles Armstrong, Sharing the space: young Londoners in Moorgate, EC2, at WeWork’s serviced
soon to launch a WeLive project, with and laundry will be co-ordinated a Tech City pioneer who has also been co-working offices for start-ups, fledgling entrepreneurs and small businesses
apartments above offices. For through a mobile app. commissioned by the Norwegian gov-
Share a live-work
ernment to create the blueprint for an
innovation district in Oslo. ‘Co-living’ is the new buzz among young
Homes are being built above and
alongside the workspaces at Fish Island
Londoners keen to live in flats attached to
Village. Peabody says they will be full-
communal office space. By David Spittles
LAUREN KALLEN/WEWORK
size apartments, not micro flats, avail-
able for rent, sale and shared ownership.
Residents will also be able to make use studios and workshops are clustered THE FLEXIBLE WEST
of a theatre, bar, café and “fabrication in the area, and what was a virtual no- Dandi Living is another company
workshop”, say for 3D printing. go district for home buyers is now a offering live/work studios, available to
Fish Island is a 50-acre industrial zone promising new frontier, with eager rent in Hounslow. The spaces are
Creative space: WeWork’s Devonshire Square hub, EC2, one of nine in London next to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park developers swooping on sites and designed to be flexible, with beds that
in Stratford. Already 600 artists’ estate agents plotting the future. can be raised to ceiling height and
desks that fold away into walls. The
diverse range of residents includes a
chiropractor, professional dancer,
‘A hotel lifestyle engineer and university researcher.
Rents start at £750 a month. Call 020
with socialising 7266 4424.
and networking’ WORKING FOR YOURSELF
The boom in self-employment is fuel-
A “CAMPUS” idea, similar to co-living, ling demand for live-work property.
is behind The Collective, a 323-unit The number of Britons working from
development in north-west London, home rose by 800,000 to 4.2 million
opening in May. Ambitiously, it has during the last decade.
been built at Old Oak, amid the Park For the 16-34 age group, the bounda-
Royal industrial zone, an area ries of the workplace are loose, with
earmarked for transformation into a many working from a café, restaurant
new district with a transport or library as well as home or an office.
superhub. Currently, 35 per cent of all Londoners
Clad in shiny metal, at first sight the work from home for some time each
canalside building looks like a Premier week, and nearly nine per cent work
Inn hotel, and is aimed at Generation full time from home, according to the
Rent. Compact studios and “two-dio” From £225 a week: The Collective rent covers wi-fi, utility bills and council tax Office for National Statistics.
two-bedroom homes with bathroom A Confederation of British Industry
and kitchenette are set above the plus all the social and networking concierge, 24/7 security, room cleans survey shows more than 50 per cent of
large communal spaces and co- advantages of being part of a and linen changes. Residents will be companies allow staff to work at home
working offices for 400 people. community. And it’s affordable and able to make use of an on-site sometimes, believing this boosts pro-
Reza Merchant, The Collective’s only 20 minutes on the train to the launderette, bike racks, gym, spa, ductivity. The typical London com-
founder, insists it is more than West End.” rooftop terrace, cinema and games muter faces a 38- minute journey to the
Affordable living: Reza Merchant, glorified student halls. “We’re offering Rents start at £225 a week and room. Plus there will be an all-day office every day — 227 hours per year
founder of The Collective at Old Oak the convenience of living in a hotel include wi-fi, utility bills, council tax, food offering. Call 020 7183 5478. — and spends more than £2,000 a year
on travel costs. Tim Dwelly, director of
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From £1.5 million: atelier-style houses in Dereham Place, Shoreditch, over six
floors, offer basement, ground-floor workshop and upper-floor living space
For sale and rent: Fish Island Village homes and workspaces in Hackney Wick
space and slash your costs
Workbox, which provides “hub build- overcome issues of isolation and Prices from £629,995. Call Bellway on into a bespoke live-work space. The 19 the Workhome research project at
ings” where home workers can meet remoteness.” 0333 202 5175. two-storey semi-shell properties range London Metropolitan University, advo-
clients and network, predicts live-work Atelier-style houses at Dereham up to 1,650sq ft and are set behind a cates more flexibility in the design of
communities will become a far bigger BUILT FOR WORK AND PLAY Place in Shoreditch offer vertical living gated entrance leading to a cobbled homes — architecture that allows the
part of the urban fabric in cities and take Unsurprisingly, more developers are over six levels, with a basement, pedestrian mews with direct access to layout of a property to be adapted dur-
root in rural towns and villages. The building “hybrid” homes for live/work- ground-floor workshop or studio plus the riverbank and a shared garden. ing its lifetime.
West Country is a particular hotspot. ers. Lawrence Square, Tottenham, bedrooms and living spaces on the New architecture has been grafted on Her team has produced a pattern book
“Broadband makes it much easier to offers two-bedroom apartments across upper floors. Prices from £1.5 million. to old workshops to create double- of designs to help, taking the best exam-
run a business from home,” he says. two floors, one a designated “work” Call Frank Harris on 020 7600 7000. height units with big windows, exposed ples from the past, such as the artists’
“High property prices, commuter area with 600sq ft of self-contained Crane Mews in Twickenham offers brick walls and steel staircases. Prices houses in Talgarth Road, Hammer-
stress, work-life balance and, above all, space. Owners have to pay business a rare chance to buy warehouse-style from £430,000. Call estate agent Feath- smith, as well as the best contemporary
global warming are pressing issues that rates on this work area, in addition to commercial properties that come with erstone Leigh on 020 8744 0595. Archi- spaces, and devising transformable
live-work can address. We just need to council tax on the residential element. planning permission for conversion tect Dr Frances Holliss, who heads up pieces of space-efficient furniture.
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THE KNOWLEDGE
ALDGATE NOW YOU
CAN AFFORD
Walk in the park: limited local green
TO RIDE WITH
space includes Swedenborg Gardens
Past: Aldgate was once the eastern-
most gateway of the London Wall
which encircled the City to protect it
THE CITY
from attack and invasion — and keep
out the riffraff.
Future: by the end of 2020 there will
be a total of 1,057 new homes on the
seven-acre Goodman’s Fields site.
SLICKERS
Trivial pursuit: the water pump in
Aldgate High Street has a grizzly
Shared ownership has reached the
past. In the 19th century several coveted City fringes with homes
people died after drinking from it
and investigations subsequently at Aldgate earmarked for young
revealed its water was contaminated
with bacteria from decaying bodies Londoners. By Ruth Bloomfield
in nearby graveyards.
O
VER recent years the
City’s fringes have been
targeted by buyers
determined to live within
walking distance of the
Square Mile. Aldgate is at the heart
of this boom, with a series of
developments breathing life into an
area that was once dominated by
suited insurance brokers by day, and Centrepiece: one
quiet as the grave after 7pm. of six bronze
The largest of these new schemes horses by British
is Goodman’s Fields, a 1,000-home sculptor Hamish
£360,000: a one-bedroom flat with development at Leman Street. It is Mackie, which will
a roof terrace in Cavell Street, E1, being built on a site where centuries will hurtle in an
for sale through Marsh & Parsons ago, working horses would be taken arc through
for some well-deserved grazing Goodman’s Fields
What it costs: the average E1 home R&R, and a series of monumental piazza
sells for just under £550,000, up bronze horses has been
£50,000 in six months according to commissioned to decorate the site in
Rightmove. acknowledgement of the animals’ but expressions of interest are being to the borough. This is a high-end
First-time buy: it’s not exactly vital role in Victorian life. taken now. Prices start at £148,750 development being built by Berkeley
ideal first-timer territory but estate Buying a property outright at for a 25 per cent share of a one- Homes, and facilities already up and
agent Marsh & Parsons has a one- Goodman’s Fields will require a bedroom flat which would cost running include an Urban Fitness
bedroom flat with a roof terrace in serious City salary. Happily, £595,000 on the open market. gym and a gastropub, both in Leman
Cavell Street, (above), on the border however, housing association Two-bedroom apartments start at Street, plus a supermarket, a café
with Stepney, on the market for Peabody (peabody.org.uk) has 40 £176,250, again for a 25 per cent and a hotel.
£360,000. shared-ownership homes on the site share for properties with an open The scheme will take another four
Landmarks: the curvaceous, neo- From £148,750: a earmarked for young Londoners on Stay fit in the market value of more than years to complete, so for a while,
futuristic City skyscraper 30 St Mary quarter share of low to medium wages. City: below right, £700,000. early residents will have to learn to
Axe — perhaps better known by its a one-bedroom The homes, at The Cavallo the residents’ Sarah Butler, sales & marketing love views of cranes and workmen.
nickname, The Gherkin — and the flat at The Cavallo Goodman’s Fields, go on sale at the swimming pool director at Peabody, said the flats “The Cavallo is arranged around a
Bevis Marks Synagogue, the oldest Goodman’s beginning of next month and will be at Goodman’s will go to buyers who live in Tower central plaza and is surrounded by
in the UK. Fields, below ready to move into by September, Fields Hamlets or have a close connection two acres of beautifully landscaped
Eat: posh Greek food (bio-dynamic
olives anyone?) at The Hungry
Donkey in Wentworth Street.
Drink: a pint of guest ale at The
Dispensary in Leman Street, which
has twice been named Camra Pub of
the Year.
Buy: since you are in the East End,
sample jellied eels, cockles or
pickled herring fresh from Petticoat
Lane Market, and browse the vast
array of trash and treasure on more
than 1,000 stalls.
Walk: there’s precious little
greenery in this neck of the woods,
other than tiny Swedenborg
Gardens. The best option for getting
a breath of fresh air is to walk the
half-mile to St Katharine Docks,
where you can admire the yachts.
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popular Hungry
Donkey Greek
Kitchen in
Wentworth
Street
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open space,” says Butler. “These the Circle or Metropolitan lines from Spectacular
contemporary new homes are design Aldgate, or the Hammersmith & City views: 22-storey
led and in a vibrant neighbourhood, and District lines from Aldgate East. Kingwood
with good transport connections and Whitechapel is just one stop away, Gardens, part of
social and cultural attractions right and from 2018 it will have Crossrail Goodman’s Fields
on the doorstep. services running to both the West by Berkeley
“Whether you enjoy cinema, live End and Heathrow.
music, theatre, fine art, or indeed Private-sale homes at Goodman’s Culture fix:
just about any kind of entertainment Fields start at £900,000 for a one- Whitechapel Art
you can imagine, you will find it bedroom flat, £1.25 million for a two- Gallery, below, is
within easy reach of Goodman’s bedroom flat, and from £1,475,000 among a list of
Fields.” for a three-bedroom flat. There are cultural haunts
also penthouses, priced at £5 million. on the doorstep
READY-MADE LIFESTYLE Visit berkeleygroup.co.uk.
A huge advantage of this Zone 1
location is that you can walk
everywhere. Shoreditch and Hoxton
are just to the north, Whitechapel is
to the east, and the City is to the west.
Head south and you are at Tower Hill
for a mooch along the Thames.
Whitechapel Art Gallery, Wilton’s
Music Hall and Spitalfields Market
are within a 10-minute walk, and the
Barbican, Shakespeare’s Globe
theatre and Tate Modern are all
about a 30- to 40-minute hike, as is
St Katharine Docks.
There are plenty of coffee shops in
Leman Street, and several
neighbourhood restaurants, plus the
consistently enjoyable Café Spice
Namaste in Prescot Street, just
around the corner. Should you need
to get on the Tube you can pick up
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Homes & Property | Profile
PLACE MAKERS:
Mr London: Terry Farrell
The master planner of major city projects including Chelsea Waterfront,
completing on the north bank from next summer, talks to Nick Curtis
S
IR TERRY FARRELL, the archi- cultural organisations and railway sta- world.” Farrells opened its Hong Kong
tect and master planner of tions — I like that,” he says. “One of the office in 1991, and has built all over Asia,
major city building projects, underlying problems of Paris is they’ve including the KK100 tower in Shenzhen
is waiting for me at Chelsea shoved all the social housing out beyond and Guangzhou South railway station.
Waterfront. This eight-acre the Périphérique. What I find extraor- Lots Road power station was built by an
site straddling Chelsea Creek, closed dinary is that London regenerates itself American to fuel the originally US-
to the public for well over a century, in a way that is true to itself.” owned Tube network, and Hong Kong-
will soon hold 706 new homes, spread It is a big project but only represents based developer Hutchison Whampoa
across the former Lots Road power a fraction of Farrell’s current activities is now opening up the riverfront there
station, in two new towers of 25 and 37 in London. There is his scheme to and in Deptford.
storeys designed by the Farrells prac- develop the Royal Albert Dock as a “Developers in the Fifties, Sixties and
tice, and a series of low-rise blocks. hub for Chinese businesses, and his Seventies were fairly crude and wholly
Unusually, 39 per cent of these new masterplan for Henry VIII’s former financially driven,” he adds. “Now they
homes will be “affordable” or for rent dockyard, Convoys Wharf in Dept- have great fun, they have style, they like
below usual market rates, encouraging ford, which, along with the Chelsea to create things, they vie with each other
families and those on lower incomes as project “will open up a kilometre of for awards. And it pays dividends.”
well as the mega-rich to move in. There previously inaccessible waterfront”. Argent won a contract to develop a 192-
will be shops and a new waterfront open There is Royal Mint Gardens, a new acre site at Brent Cross on the strength
to all. This, for Farrell, 77, epitomises development squeezed around the of its sensitive work at King’s Cross. Not
the organic nature of London’s growth. DLR tracks behind St Katharine Docks, that all development is necessarily
Powering up: Chelsea Waterfront, master planned by Sir Terry Farrell, will bring “That mixture of heights, densities, and the Eagle House redevelopment good. Simple economics mean that “if
706 new homes, in towers and low-rise, to the old Lots Road power station site families and single people, with shops, at Old Street, a renovation of an Art you build 72 stories in a tall, thin tower,
Deco block that influenced the design you have to sell it to the super-rich”. This
of the accompanying new tower. is a thinly veiled reference to Renzo
‘People think the There are the master plans, too, for Piano’s so-called “mini-Shard”, which
the vast Earl’s Court and Old Oak Com- Farrell believes is wrong for its proposed
Gherkin is fun, or the mon sites which, Farrell points out, location in Paddington, and represents,
Walkie Talkie isn’t, or along with Chelsea Waterfront and like the Shard itself, “someone [having]
that the Shard is nice. White City represent a swathe of west chanced their arm”.
London brownfield development of Farrell believes that home buyers, like
Architecture has the kind more commonly found in developers, have become aware of the
become part of south or particularly east London. He importance of good design and plan-
advocates building to greater density ning, whether that be through a greater
entertainment, within the M25 to accommodate Lon- appreciation of open space, infrastruc-
Peace Quiet
almost like art has don’s predicted population growth of ture and decent room volumes, of inte-
two million, but thinks overall city riors (Farrells is designing every last
always been’ planning needs “a light touch” rather detail of Eagle House) or of the wisdom
than overweening schemes. of employing an architect on even a
Enthusiast: starchitect Sir That said, he is an advocate of smallish project, like glassing over a side
Terry Farrell favours London expanding Gatwick rather than Heath- return. “Architects are part of fashion
developments with a mixture row in order to “turbo-charge the now,” he says. “Once upon a time build-
of “heights, densities, economy of Croydon and Merton”. ings were done by architects all building
families and single people, in a similar kind of way. Now there’s
shops, cultural organisations He recently suggested the expansion of character and almost artistic intent and
and railway stations — London’s “core” to embrace Totten- fashionable egos around the place.
I like that” ham, Thamesmead, Croydon and People think the Gherkin is fun, and the
Heathrow, with better traffic links Walkie Talkie isn’t, or that the Shard is
extending outwards. And he told nice — architecture has become part of
Homes & Property that east London entertainment, almost like art has
would be better served with seven low- always been.”
level lifting bridges to encourage cross-
river foot and cycle traffic and Farrell is a passionate, engaging talker
mixed-use growth at either end, rather and an enthusiast. He becomes almost
than one or two “motorways” over or boyishly excited when talking about
under the Thames. Crossrail. But he is also getting to a
So, Terry, is there a bit of London stage in life where he must plan his own
you aren’t building on? firm’s future. A recent article in New
“We haven’t cornered the design London Quarterly detailed plans to
and building market at all,” he pro- devolve power within Farrells as it
tests. Although his firm’s name embarks on projects that will take 10,
appears at the top of many schemes
— including Old Oak Common and
15 or 20 years to complete: his son Max,
also an architect in the practice, joins
" !! Chelsea — much of the building us in our interview.
! will be done by other architects. Terry Farrell will eventually leave
Yet one can see in all of them a behind a London which is more
touch that is distinctively his: a organic, more thoughtfully developed,
respect for and wish to preserve and more enjoyable than it would have
original buildings that give an been without him. But I wonder if there
area character; joined-up think- is a particular building of his he would
ing with regard to transport links commend to posterity.
and shops that make an area a His own favourites, he says, are the
community; and an interest in Home Office in Marsham Street and
social housing. He likes to look at the Embankment Place, the futuristic
whole practice of planning and build- steam train of a building at the back of
ing holistically, “from the chair to the Charing Cross. “But when I am giving
far horizon”, as he says. a talk to students in darkest parts of the
Not that he is averse to building for world like China and Melbourne, I
the wealthy. He has defended the show slides of the MI6 building and
" money that will flow from China into they all instantly recognise it. Everyone
MATT WRITTLE
Royal Albert Dock by pointing out: knows it because of the Bond films.”
“London has always been an immi- Farrell looks briefly affronted: “They
grant city that has traded with the keep blowing it up, though.”
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Here is what the doctor
Fans of new TV drama Doctor Thorne are falling in love with the Wiltshire village of Castle Combe.
Now new faster trains will get home buyers to London in an hour, reports Ruth Bloomfield
H
E TURNED Highclere Castle this needs to be balanced against out-
into one of the most recog- standing schools and property which
nisable — not to mention is a veritable steal compared with more
bankable — houses in fashionable parts of Gloucestershire
Britain. And now Julian and Oxfordshire.
Fellowes is giving Castle Combe, a small “Savvy buyers should know that you
village in Wiltshire, the Downton Abbey can get some good-value houses here
treatment with his current Sunday set in some incredibly pretty villages,”
night screen epic Doctor Thorne, star- he says. “You have Chippenham train
ring Tom Hollander, Rebecca Front and station taking you to London — perfect
Ian McShane. And there will be more for the three-day-a-week commuters.
reasons to tune in than to check out “Since RAF Lyneham relocated from
whether Prince Harry’s ex Cressida the area, noise pollution is no longer a
Bonas, who also features, is not just a problem either. This is a neck of the
pretty face. woods that the market hasn’t cottoned
This is because the ongoing electrifi- on to — yet.”
cation of the Great Western Railway Matthew Pegler, associate director,
will bring Castle Combe and nearby Savills, says Castle Combe is very much
villages like Lacock, which also features the trophy location of the area (Lacock,
on Doctor Thorne, firmly into commut- while lovely, is National Trust-owned
able distance of the capital. From next and thus short on homes for sale).
year services from Chippenham, Castle “Castle Combe is just your quintes-
Combe’s nearest major town, to Pad- sential Cotswolds village, with the river
dington will be cut from an hour and a and the ducks, the pretty cottages, a
quarter to around an hour. couple of good pubs,” he says.
Castle Combe — with a total popula- There are, in fact, two Castle Combes,
tion of just under 400 souls — is the upper and lower, and it is lower Castle
loveliest English village imaginable. Combe that has the looks and charm.
Set on the south side of the Cots- In lower Castle Combe a two-bed-
wolds, it is a perfect jumble of ancient room cottage would cost in the region
of £400,000 while a four-bedroom
house would cost between £800,000
The commute to Paddington and £1 million. Cotswolds jewel:
from one of the loveliest What the village lacks is a village shop Castle Combe is a
English villages imaginable or a school. Locals use the facilities in perfect jumble of
Yatton Keynell, two miles away, where ancient stone
will soon be slashed By Brook Valley Academy Trust (pri- cottages draped
mary) is rated “outstanding” by Ofsted. in wisteria
Sunday stone cottages draped in wisteria Castle Combe also has a racing cir- beside the River
night stars: beside the River Bybrook; little wonder cuit, with regular car and motorcycle Bybrook
Rebecca the producers of Doctor Thorne, based meetings, so this area is sheer nirvana
Front, Tom on a novel by Anthony Trollope, for petrolheads.
Hollander decided to make it a key location for Another village worth checking out
and Ian Fellowes’s latest Sunday night drama. is Biddestone, three and a half miles
McShane in And while travel costs are off- west of Chippenham. This is Pegler’s
ITV’s puttingly high — an annual season choice for those who want to be near
Doctor ticket costs £9,876 (yes, you read that a station but still live in a glorious coun-
Thorne right) — Luke Morgan, of Strutt & Park- try village. “It is a very proactive village
er’s country house department, says with lots of groups and events,” he
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really ordered
ALAMY
Mounting interest: Castle Combe, where a two-bedroom house such as this one,
below, in Market Place is on sale for £325,000 through rightmove.com
ALAMY
adds. “There are a couple of good pubs, and The Corsham School (seniors) are basically got everything you need — house. Over the past year Taylor has
a very active sports and social club. rated “good”. ‘Savvy buyers should know shops, a school, two pubs, a doctors’ seen demand start to swell in this part
They have a good time there.” Charlie Taylor, a partner at Knight that this is a neck of the surgery, plus it is just a lovely Cotswold of the Cotswolds, which he points out
Property choices are more diverse Frank, adds Bowden Hill to the village stone village,” said Taylor. Add to this is already more commutable (and
than in Castle Combe, and a little shopping list. “It sits on an escarpment woods that the market list a church, community centre, sports’ cheaper) than the more fashionable
cheaper. You could buy a two-bedroom with great views across Salisbury Plain,” hasn’t cottoned on to — yet’ hall, tea room, a grocery store, newsa- villages north of the M4. While train
cottage for £350,000 to £400,000, a he says. “And Chippenham is so close gent, butcher and Post Office, plus a fares are “horrendous” it remains a
four-bedroom house for around that it is brilliant for commuting.” “requires improvement” according to nine-mile drive to the glories of Bath. good choice for those who can work
£800,000, or go all out with a manor Bowden Hill has a range of property, Ofsted, which means children may Expect to pay around £300,000 for part of the week from home.
house and a couple of acres for £2.5 mil- from modern houses to Georgian family need to be ferried to Melksham, five a two-bedroom cottage, or £700,000 The reason, says Taylor, that villages
lion to £3 million. homes to ancient cottages. Expect to pay miles away, where there are several to to £800,000 for a four- to five-bedroom in the south Cotswolds are less in vogue
Biddestone also has the advantage of £500,000 for a three- to four- bedroom choose from. Melksham Oak Commu- house on the very scenic high street. than the north is because of Chippen-
being a couple of miles from Corsham, house in the village, up to around £1 mil- nity School (seniors) is rated “good” by And developer Princeton Homes ham. “It is just a little bit tarnished,”
a very decent small town with a good lion for a five-bedroomed detached the Government’s schools watchdog. (princetonhomes.co.uk) has just he says, generously, of the run-down
high street. Corsham Primary School house with good gardens. Bowden Hill If you want a really busy village then launched Camden Gardens, a bou- market town. “But the villages them-
is rated “outstanding” by Ofsted while has a pub but lacks its own school. Marshfield, just across the border into tique development of new homes priced selves are just as good as anything you
The Corsham Regis Primary Academy The nearest primary, in Lacock, Gloucestershire, could fit the bill. “It has from £445,000 for a three-bedroom will find north of the motorway.”12 WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH 2016 EVENING STANDARD
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FAVOURITE MUSEUM ByLiz Hoggard
I picked up a book the other day
which asks a dozen museum curators
from around the world to name their
favourite museum that was not their
Deyan
own, and half of them named Sir
John Soane’s Museum. It is the
Desert Island Discs choice.
I think Tate Britain is the unloved,
Sudjic
but actually much more attractive DIRECTOR, THE DESIGN MUSEUM
experience than Tate Modern.
T
The pressure of visitor numbers is OMORROW, Deyan
not actually making the Tate or the Sudjic, director for a
British Museum particularly decade of the Design
wonderful places to go. And Tate Museum, will unveil his
Britain has become rather a civilised masterplan for its new
place. £78.5 million John Pawson-
designed home in Kensington.
Civilised: Sudjic says Tate Britain, right, Born in London, Sudjic, right,
is more appealing than Tate Modern studied architecture in Edinburgh.
He went on to edit the architecture
and design magazine Domus in
Milan and later the British design
magazine, Blueprint. His books
include B is for Bauhaus and
monographs on Pawson, Jan
Kaplický and Memphis architect
Ettore Sottsass. This summer Sudjic
will oversee the Design Museum’s
move from Shad Thames to W8.
My design London
DANIEL LYNCH
WHERE I LIVE
I live in a terrace house in Camden
Town which is an extraordinary bit of
London. We moved there in 1997
from Hampstead — it was the first
proper house I had. In Dombey and
Son, Dickens describes the area
north of King’s Cross as being cut in
two by the railways and the canals,
and also talks of streets marooned in
midair with half-houses hanging off
them, and I think Camden Town still
feels like that.
On the one side you’ve got the ever-
expanding market where you can get
any kind body part pierced, and also
short-sighted dope dealers offering
me stuff that I’m flattered they think I High-rise London: skyscrapers give the city a “Dubai look”
might want. And then on the other
side there’s Regent’s Park, the nicest WHY KEN GOT IT WRONG
park in London.
Our’s is a funny street. Three ONE of my favourite places Museum at Shad Thames,
different Conrans have lived there at to browse in is the it’s utterly ruthless, the
different times and our house used to National Film Theatre/BFI nearest thing to Shanghai
belong to Jasper Conran. He bookshop, it’s a great in Europe, and it happened
commissioned architect Nigel Coates place to buy all the DVDs. without anybody
to transform it when he lived there Though I do find the understanding what was
with John Galliano. And then he had Southbank difficult. We’ve going on.
to sell it and the people who bought it told ourselves for years When Ken Livingstone
off them tore out everything big time, that it’s a windswept, [London Mayor for two
except for two fireplaces, and concrete wasteland and terms, 2000-2008] came
painted it all green. yet it is now overwhelmed to power, we assumed he
So when we arrived we tore out by perhaps too many was a populist leftie, but
everything that they’d done. Terrible people. So you to have then he hadn’t done the
behaviour, it’s like trying to make fight your way through deal with the City of
your mark on the house. pop-up Mexican London to say: “Right
restaurants to actually see we’re going to become the
MY DECOR a great Sixties building. world’s financial capital
My office is at the top of the house. My In the past 10 years, we which will create jobs and
wife Sarah [Miller, the European thought London was a attract people.”
editor of Travel + Leisure magazine] gentle place — mostly we And it’s true it is starting
has the ground floor, and she has are quite conservative and to grow in London again,
started employing people, so the we don’t like skyscrapers. but no one quite expected
kitchen is now the new workplace. But if you look out of the it had to look like Dubai in
Ikea should be doing special kitchen window from the Design the process.
tables that turn into desks.
It’s a tall, thin house and the walls
are white. The one thing we did to longue for Cassina. In the dining
make the house feel connected was room we have a Barca dining table by
to use the Dinesen Douglas fir Piero de Martini for Cassina, and
floorboards John Pawson uses in his Hans Wegner Wishbone chairs.
interiors. I collect chairs — so in the With architecture, I think you
living room we have a Charles and should put your money where your
Ray Eames lounge chair, a Bertoia mouth is. Very early on I got the late
side chair from Knoll and a Le Jan Kaplický to turn my flat in Maida
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DESIGN CLASSIC
It’s curious but it’s probably the
Polaroid SX-70 Camera, which is the
nearest the analogue world got to
digital, in that you pressed a button
and three minutes later you actually
had a photograph. But it did it in such
a nice way because it looked like a
cigar case in leather and brushed
aluminium and when you pressed
the button, there was this amazing
whoosh, and out it came. And Ralph
Steadman used to turn them into Dream home: Sudjic would love to live in The Farnsworth House designed by
artworks by randomly manipulating Mies van der Rohe — if it could be transported from Illinois, US, to Regent’s Park
the way the Polaroid film set, so you
could actually distort faces.
Pictures in an instant: the pioneering Favourite showroom: the work of furniture designer and manufacturer Sheridan Connected: Sudjic used Dinesen Douglas fir floorboards, like these, in his home
Polaroid SX-70, first produced in 1972 Coakley is never predictable, says Sudjic. Coakley’s SCP shops are in W2 and EC2 to unify rooms — an idea borrowed from architectural designer John Pawson
great but very extreme. He had just I love the way that people will not trying to persuade you to buy SECRET SPACE
been made redundant from Norman stop making magazines for love — so something you don’t need — and I always love the river and there are
Foster’s office so I was his first client. many little magazines are done by Sottsass had that suspicion, too. He still bits of the Thames where you can
Of course he went on to greatness, people who will never make any had a much richer life than most see the water. It’s got such a fantastic
designing Selfridges in Birmingham money out of it, but everyone has got designers do. He knew everybody light, so walking from Pier Head in
and the Lord’s Test Box, with his energy, whether it’s about cycling or from Picasso to Hemingway to Wapping, although it has become
practice Future Systems. conceptual art or sport. It’s bizarre billionaire Italian terrorists. surrounded by trendiness, there are
amazingly creative. It’s counter- I do have at home the bright red still bits of it where you can actually
FAVOURITE STUDIO SHOP intuitive because people assume Olivetti Valentine S portable get that sense. I have also found going
I really enjoy going to see the print is going out of relevance, but typewriter that Sottsass designed in to Stratford really interesting
furniture designer and manufacturer it’s not. And it is hard to beat Daunt 1969 for young people at a cost they recently because that area is in such
Sheridan Coakley. He’s got two shops Books’ travel bookshop in could afford. I’ll never use it again transition. You can now see what will
and he is always interesting because Marylebone High Street. but it’s just comforting to have it soon become quite bleak high-rise
he is never predictable, there are there. A young person told me apartment blocks, but at the moment
always things you haven’t thought of. MY DESIGN HERO recently: “How amazing you don’t they’re just a cluster, within sight of
Another place I have always found It was great to get to spend time with need a printer with a typewriter.” the Olympic Stadium, where there
amazing is Ron Arad’s studio Ettore Sottsass who had this amazing are four lift cores, each 40 floors
opposite the Roundhouse — it’s a bat ability, where half his brain was FAVOURITE GALLERY high, which are the most amazing,
cave that Ron created himself from thinking about how you actually I enjoy going to the Gagosian King’s slender things. It’s like Stonehenge in
rusty steel. Going to Tom Dixon on make things work, simply and well, Cross gallery. They have done a way.
the canal at Portobello Dock, W10 is and the other half was spent trying to amazing shows on Richard Serra and
great, and chef Stevie Parle’s make objects that bit the hand that James Turrell, and I am really sad DREAM HOME
restaurant blends into the showroom fed them. They were meant to be that their customers feel it is too far- What I would really like is to bring
beautifully. Magma bookshop in questioning consumerism. There’s Just my type: the Olivetti Valentine flung, so they are now opening up a Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth
Covent Garden is always fascinating. always a suspicion that designers are S typewriter, by Ettore Sottsass giant place in Mayfair. House to Regent’s Park.
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Feathered
frenzy: tropical
cushion, above
left, from £12 at
very.co.uk; above
right, cotton
Who’s a pretty cushion cover by
boy?: parrot H&M Home,
money box, £48 £7.99; right,
for Mia Fleur copper-coloured
(miafleur.com) pineapple ice
bucket from
Oliver Bonas, £40
Design trends
By Barbara Chandler
Flying down to Rio T
HE Rio Olympics are Let’s party: above, blue pineapple tea Espasso’s current star, however, is
months away and outside light holder, £6; pineapple citronella very much of the moment — Zanini
it’s still chilly, but London candle, £8; flamingo scatter cushion, de Zanine, 38, the son of mid-century
design is already enjoying £12; tableware from £2.50; honeycomb Brazilian furniture designer José
a Brazil-inspired tropical flamingos, £2 (sainsburys.co.uk) Zanine Caldas. His chunky, hand-
creative storm. Setting the scene is crafted limited editions are already
The Conran Shop in South spontaneous”, includes chairs made highly collectible, and pieces from a
Kensington, where Urban Outfitters’ of soft toys and tangled rope, and has current one-man show in Paris will
Hugh Wahla became chief executive been seen in London regularly since shortly come to our capital.
at the end of last year. the flamboyant pair founded their “London is only just discovering
Espirito do Brasil, an ambitious São Paulo studio in 1984. Brazilian mid-century modernism,”
installation at the store, reflects the But there is a quieter, stronger and says Junqueira. What you find in his
diverse architecture and vibrant more accessible side to Brazilian gallery/shop is in marked contrast to
design of South America’s biggest design, influenced by the country’s the plethora of blond Scandi-modern
country, the largest population of profound modernist heritage, and its pieces so prevalent elsewhere.
Portuguese speakers in the world. traditions of fine craftsmanship. Brazilian furniture is rich and
An “apartment concept” fills the organic, with plenty of dark woods
windows with an open-plan layout The Conran Shop is promoting and deep-coloured leather, usually
that shoppers can walk through to Brazilian designer Jader Almeida, handcrafted, and even a little brutal.
explore rooms on either side, set who at 34 already has about 150 Authenticated “re-editions” are
against a backdrop of room-high pieces in production with Brazil- now available of mid-century classic
banana trees, palms and ferns. based furniture manufacturer, pieces by, for example, Sérgio
Inspiration came from the Casa de Sollos. With a background that Rodrigues, who died in 2014 aged 86
Vidro, or Glass House, a modernist includes technical drawing and and has been called “the father of
landmark in Morumbi, São Paulo, architecture, Almeida loves working Brazilian furniture”. And from next
which merges seamlessly with the in solid wood — combined, for month, Espasso will be representing
tropical vegetation outside. The example, with brass and glass — the Campana Brothers in London.
Tops for the house was built in 1951 by architect creating furniture with carefully At Harrods, Annalise Fard, director
table: above left, and editor Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992), detailed joints and labour-intensive of home and design, has observed
Matthew who left her native Italy after the war hand finishes. Influences include the the influence of Brazil: “From
Williamson to settle in Brazil, where her many elegant curves of buildings in the furnishings to food, fashion and
dessert plate, £4 designs include the São Paulo capital, Brasília, by Brazilian accessories, from Aquazzura,
at Debenhams; Museum of Art. architect Oscar Niemeyer. Proenza Schouler and Salvatore
above, parrot Design buffs may associate In London you can find vintage Ferragamo with their paintbox
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Offbeat seat: left, the Prickly Chair by Brazilian beauties: Espirito do Brasil
Mexican designer Valentina Gonzalez installation at the Conran Shop with Beehive
Wohlers is a humorous take on the pendant lamp in brass by Marc de Groot, £595,
classic Louis XV oval chair combined and Geometric corded cushion covers, £99
with a Nopal cactus; above left, Malfa
wallpaper from the 2016 collection at
Manuel Canovas (manuelcanovas.com)
Williamson furniture — just arrived in
store from Duresta — and geometric
palm-print paper from Cole’s.
From a simple group of cacti — get
them in little pots from Ikea at £4.50
for three — to giant palms, greenery is
an easy route to the tropical look.
The London-wide Oliver Bonas brand
of fashion/home stores has already
foretold “a summer of the cactus”.
The huge plants in The Conran
Shop are from specialists Arnott &
Mason in New Covent Garden
Market. Get up early to catch them in
SW8, as they start around 4am and
are finished by 10.30am. Visit
arnottandmason.london/plants.
More conveniently, buy from The
Conran Shop — from £270 for a giant
Monstera. Or go down the faux route
and find cacti, grasses, giant banana
leaves and more at Abigail Ahern in
Upper Street, N1 (abigailahern.com),
or in Heal’s, W1.
Meanwhile, exclusive brands and
the high street alike are in a tropical
frenzy, sporting palms, pineapples,
flamingos, parrots and exotic flowers
at every turn, in cerise, lemon, lime,
cobalt and turquoise.
Like Rudyard Kipling in the Just So
stories, we may never roll to Rio or
sail the Amazon, but certainly for
London design in the months ahead,
tropical will be topical.
Sculptural: Jungle rock:
Balanço Chaise Crosley Palm
by Zanini de Print Keepsake
Zanine for Record Player,
Espasso, price on right, £160 from
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