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NE of Britain’s richest men,
the banking heir Jamie
Hambro, 66, has had his
plans to create a huge
compound in Chelsea
scuppered — thanks to two trees in his
back garden, writes Ruth Bloomfield.
Mr Hambro, whose grandfather
founded Hambros Bank, is married with
three daughters and spends much of his Trophy
time at the family farm in Norfolk. He
had planned to connect his four-storey home of
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south-west London house to the mews
house behind it, which he also owns, by
the week
digging a link running under the garden.
The scheme would have almost doubled
Dig deep for
the property’s size. this Cotswolds
However, Kensington and Chelsea
council has refused permission, citing
as a key reason the threat to a purple
leaf Japanese maple tree and an ever-
Banker, spare castle… it would
be folly not to
green magnolia in the rear garden.
Graham Stallwood, executive direc-
tor of planning, said that with only a
metre of soil between the roof of the
basement and the garden, future
those trees £2.5 million: when you have
the luxury of being choosy,
what could be better than a
unfolding across 4,000sq ft.
The tower holds two
bedrooms, a bathroom and a
kitchen, dining and living
areas, with wall-to-wall
sliding glass doors to a
replanting would be impossible, and
bird and insects would be adversely
One of Britain’s richest men loses Cotswolds castellated tower
that conceals a bespoke
roof terrace that gives 360-
degree views, along with a
courtyard and swimming
pool. Two further en suite
affected. He also said the plan’s scale
could damage neighbouring homes
out in a planning battle over a underground home?
This Grade II-listed former
ground-floor sitting room.
But it’s the open-plan
bedrooms lit by large
circular roof lights, plus a
and cause a flooding risk, and pointed
out that by merging the two properties,
magnolia and a Japanese maple hunting lodge, two miles
from Cirencester, has gone
reception room below
ground that really wows. It’s
staff lodge/guest studio and
ample garaging complete the
Mr Hambro was reducing the total from ruined folly to fabulous a showcase of limestone and picture. Through Sotheby’s
number of homes in the borough. The Stymied: Jamie new parts would have been used for a subterranean retreat marble across über-sleek (01932 860537).
Hambro, inset bedroom, entertainment space and a
above, and his kitchen, plans show. None of the neigh-
south-west bours objected.
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London home. He Mr Hambro, chairman of wealth man- Lifechanger
wanted to link agement firm James Hambro & Partners
Morley the main house and a prolific charitable donor, hired a of the week
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£450,000: ticking the boxes
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Stay at Fast Eddie’s gossip?
ÉMOTOR racing star Eddie Irvine, Tweet @
left, is renting out his home. The amiranews
former F1 driver’s 5,000sq ft house
nestles in a secluded seaside spot in
Dalkey, Dublin, where locals include
singer Van Morrison and U2’s Bono
and The Edge.
With five bedrooms and plenty of
room for 10 to stay, Irvine’s place,
right, is listed on Airbnb for £975 per
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night. Overlooking Killiney Bay, the
ultra-modern property has a large
games and pool area with a bar, plus
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a sauna, Jacuzzi and plunge pool.
De Beers designer’s
Mayfair flat is a gem
É INTERIOR designer to A-list stars
and royalty, Tessa Kennedy, above, is
selling her Mayfair pied-à-terre.
Kennedy’s private clients have
included Richard Burton and Liz
By Amira Hashish Taylor, Pierce Brosnan and George
Harrison. A big player in the hotel
O More homes gossip at homesandproperty.co.uk/gossip world, she has designed bedroom
suites at Claridge’s, The Rivoli Bar at
The Ritz and The Amber Room at The
Ritz Club casino, along with De
Beers’ diamond offices in London
and yachts for the super-rich.
Her flat, below, is on the market for
£3 million with Rokstone. Every inch
as opulent as you might expect, it
covers 863sq ft.
Hollywood god The building, in Upper Brook
Street, dates from 1912 and was
Hemsworth has designed by Edmund Wimperis who
later became the surveyor for the
gone back to Oz Grosvenor Estate.
Fendi’s £1m Tuscan farmhouse É HOLLYWOOD heart-throb Chris
Hemsworth has put his mansion in
is a dream for the fashionistas exclusive Point Dume, Malibu, on the
market for £4.6 million.
ÉFENDI showcased luxe major revamp. It is in the The 6,800sq ft spread, above, has
fabrics and soft silhouettes centre of Cetona, a five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a gym,
with Kendall Jenner on the medieval town where a guesthouse and a three-car garage.
catwalk at its show for personalities from the The Thor actor and his Spanish
Milan Fashion Week, worlds of finance, showbiz actress wife Elsa Pataky, right, are
which closed yesterday. and fashion find refuge. selling up in California after moving
Dedicated fans of the The lovely garden is over to Hemsworth’s native Australia with
fashion label can snap up a several levels, and there’s a their three children. Much as he loved
property owned by the guesthouse and caves in LA life, he said it didn’t feel like home.
Fendi family. Guido the grounds. Close to Hemsworth, who also stars in the
Formilli Fendi’s Rome, Florence and new Ghostbusters movie, bought the
farmhouse, above, in Perugia, this dream retreat Malibu house from Crocodile Dundee
Tuscany has just come on is just over £1 million with star and fellow Aussie, Paul Hogan.
the market following a Great Estate in Siena.
CGI’S ARE INDICATIVE ONLY. PRICES ARE
CORRECT AT TIME OF GOING TO PRINT.
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Homes & Property | New homes
Save money
with a home
in a hot zone
The Elizabeth line, formerly Crossrail, brings 1.5m
extra people within 45 minutes of central London.
David Spittles looks at prices zone by zone
T
HE newly named Elizabeth sive than neighbouring Camberwell,
line, formerly known as which has no Tube. Lower-priced areas
Crossrail, is forecast to bring are being opened up by transport
an extra 1.5 million people upgrades, not just the Elizabeth line but
within 45 minutes’ com- the proposed Bakerloo line extension
mute of the capital’s key employment through south-east London.
districts. Trains start running in 2018
and the prospect of a faster journey ZONE 1
and a more integrated Tube network
should be a spur for anyone searching ‘FRINGE PRIME’ SWEET SPOTS
for a home to buy or rent with an easier Homes in Zone 1, the central zone, have
journey to work. an average price of £1.2 million — yet
Despite high property prices forcing there are five Tube stops where average
more people to consider moving fur- prices come in under £700,000. These
ther out, new research reveals stark are Aldgate East, Lambeth North, Bor-
price differences within each travel ough, Waterloo and Vauxhall.
zone, including Zone 1, and how, by People talk about postcode power
travelling just one stop further on the and the allure of top addresses, but
Tube you can get a far more affordable buyers on lower budgets do not have
home without having to go miles out. to shun Zone 1. Travel five stops — nine
“The Tube map is a fascinating way minutes — on the Bakerloo line from
of breaking down the London property Elephant & Castle to Piccadilly, and
landscape,” says eMoov’s Russell average property prices will increase
Quirk. “Doing your homework can more than threefold.
result in a considerable reduction in This explains the rise of the so-called
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the price you will pay for a property. “fringe prime”, or lower-priced central
“Moving one stop and one zone from areas. Look beyond hotspots such as
Turnham Green [Zone 2] to Acton Nine Elms and Bankside, and head a
Town [Zone 3], only four minutes down little inland. Lambeth North, just a
the District or Piccadilly line, will save short stroll from Westminster Bridge,
you £400,000 on the price of the aver- is relatively “undiscovered”. Check out
age property.” the area around Lower Marsh, a lively
160-year-old street market that has had
KNOW WHERE TO TURN a facelift and is on the up.
Even turning left rather than right out “Refurbished shopfronts and new
of a Tube station can make a difference. street paving have made a huge differ-
In outer boroughs, you can often save ence,” says resident Tina Evans. “All the
money by buying a home one or two shopkeepers and locals want to talk. It’s
stops closer in rather than at the end quirky and individual and there’s a
of the line. In general, homes within a sense of community.”
five to 10-minute walk of a station are Dover House, a former hotel and
the most expensive — even pricier than restaurant, was originally designed by
those that are right next to one, though the architects of Trocadero and Scott’s
that is changing with mainline station restaurants in the West End. The Vic-
redevelopments that include smart torian façade has been restored and
new homes, such as at King’s Cross. the interior split into nine flats.
Prices drop markedly for homes more Perspective, next to Lambeth North
than 15 minutes’ walk away. “Almost Tube station, is a complex with flats
every buyer and renter coming through from £500,000. Call Frank Harris on
our doors wants to be near the station,” 020 7620 3400. Valentine Place is a
says Nick Davies of east London estate low-rise scheme of 42 flats and mews
agent Stirling Ackroyd. Brixton, on the houses near the Old Vic theatre. From
Victoria line, is 15 per cent more expen- £965,000. Call 020 3437 1294. Value in Zone 1: check out the area around Lower Marsh, with a lively 160-year-old
year-old street
market and revamped shopfronts — homes here are handy for Lambeth North orth station
TOP 10 CHEAPEST POSTCODES IN LONDON TRAVEL ZONES 1 TO 6
ZONE 1 Average ZONE 2 Average ZONE 3 Average ZONE 4 Average ZONE 5 Average
Station house price Station house price Station house price Station house price Station house price
Aldgate East £535,920 Bromley-by-Bow £329,778 Upton Park £283,134 Barking £237,337 Becontree £240,294
Lambeth North £660,167 Stratford £339,600 Plaistow £284,692 Upney £237,337 Dagenham Heathway £250,976
Borough £664,838 North Acton £384,626 Leyton £364,067 Grange Hill £298,744 Dagenham East £250,976
Waterloo £669,743 New Cross £392,405 Park Royal £371,114 Alperton £317,357 Hatton Cross £292,859
Vauxhall £689,556 Stepney Green £396,254 South Ealing £371,114 Burnt Oak £327,795 Harrow & Wealdstone £300,969
Southwark £706,693 Mile End £401,996 Colliers Wood £388,410 Hounslow East £328,482 Northolt £301,808
London Bridge £706,752 New Cross Gate £406,048 Blackhorse Road £398,325 Hounslow Central £328,482 South Harrow £325,951
Elephant & Castle £706,752 Bow Road £408,770 Seven Sisters £401,667 Colindale £336,874 Hounslow West £328,482
Aldgate £713,089 Canada Water £431,309 Walthamstow Central £408,155 Fairlop £343,831 North Harrow £395,310
Liverpool Street £741,152 Surrey Quays £431,309 Tottenham Hale £409,519 Hainault £343,831 West Harrow £404,344
Zone 1 average £1,256,149 Zone 2 average £795,981 Zone 3 average £594,673 Zone 4 average £434,490 Zone 5 average £420,205
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From £450,000:
flats and houses
at St Agnes
Place, a new
scheme among
the quiet garden
squares and
Georgian and
Victorian
terraces of
Kennington, a
comparatively
“ungritty”
good-value
area of Zone 2
From £460,000: Zone 4 apartments
at Alto, the latest phase of a 5,000-
home neighbourhood around the
stadium in well-connected Wembley
ZONE 2
KEEP IT UNDER £500K
Zone 2 starts at the Congestion Charge
boundary and embraces 126 Tube sta-
tions, stretching to Acton in the west,
Archway in the north, Poplar in the east
and Brixton in the south. Many areas
have average prices below £500,000.
New Cross is one of the cheapest Zone
2 address and has excellent transport
connections: six-minute trains to Lon-
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plus one stop to the Jubilee line inter-
change at Canada Water. It’s scruffy in + *& *&" ' +#" !
parts, but smartening up and prices
are tempting buyers across the river.
Not all good-value Zone 2 areas are
quite as gritty. Kennington, where the
average home costs £500,285, has quiet
garden squares, and St Agnes Place is
a new addition to the compact network
of Georgian and Victorian terraces. The
43-home scheme beside Kennington
Park has flats from £450,000. Launch-
ing soon are period-style four-storey
townhouses, from £1.3 million. Call L&Q
(0333 0033 660). Corio, close to Tower
Bridge and fashionable Shad Thames,
has 167 flats priced from £450,000. Call
020 3811 6272.
ZONES 3 AND 4
OVERGROUND IS KEY
Zones 3 and 4 are experiencing the
biggest demand for property across
the Tube network. “Some areas are
significantly undervalued given the
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quick commute to the centre, and the
potential for price growth is promis-
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transport links [Baker Street in 13 min-
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is building a 5,000-home neighbour-
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ZONE 6 Average has raised the bar, with West End
Station house price Crossrail, centre, names, new eateries and a multiplex +& $"-- ++
renamed in her
Elm Park £332,423 honour. The new
cinema. Alto, the latest phase of flats,
start at £460,000. Call 020 3151 8601.
Hornchurch £355,428 line will speed
Hillingdon £373,265 trains from
Ruislip Manor £396,500 Acton, main
ZONES 5 AND 6
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West Ruislip £436,080 minutes. Above, on average, and for this reason alone
Loughton £448,350 flats at Corio in it is worth exploring as price growth
Upminster Bridge £449,319 Bermondsey, seems inevitable. However, Zone 6 has
Epping £492,858 Zone 2, are more expensive homes — tending to be
Zone 6 average £501,567 priced from spacious and in country environments
£450,000 at the end of the line.
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Homes & Property | Affordable homes
Plump for
Plumstead:
prices are still
comparatively
low in SE18,
which boasts
award-winning
residential tower
Elmgrove Point,
left
Star of the east:
Three Mills, right,
former working
mills, now a
visitor draw and
film studio on the
River Lea, a short
walk from Bow
River Village
homes in E3
We’re not paying more than £180k
A
FFORDABLE housing is former West Thames College, and close typical narrow boat in this price range dock to have its hull scraped and
If you think you can London’s big property
issue. But exactly what
to both Richmond and Kew Gardens.
Prices start at £143,500, and trains from
would be six feet wide and around
sixty-six feet long, giving 300-400sq ft
repainted. So all things considered, it
isn’t a cheap option — although com-
only afford a parking constitutes an affordable
home is far from clear.
Isleworth to Waterloo take less than 40
minutes. Visit currell.com.
of living space, depending on its
design.
pared with buying a flat in a location
such as Little Venice or King’s Cross it
space in London, According to a recent study, 76 per
cent of Londoners polled believe that ALL ABOARD
Mr Day warned, however, that it is
likely to be impossible to secure a mort-
is exceptionally good value.
you are wrong — and a truly affordable home should cost no Another possibility is living afloat. A gage for a boat, so the only way a first- BUYING AT AUCTION
more than £180,000. budget of between £140,000 and time buyer is going to get one is with a Auctions have a reputation of being a
Ruth Bloomfield While the idea of finding a property £180,000 would buy you a one-bed- gift or loan from a relative. good source of value property, but
— rather than a tiny parking space — for room narrow boat plus mooring at a If this is an option, there are also Andrew Binstock, director and auc-
can tell you why less than that amount sounds unlikely, lovely central London marina such as annual costs to consider. Mooring fees tioneer of Auction House London,
there are, in fact, affordable options Little Venice, Paddington Basin, Ice typically run at around £10,000 a year, warns first-time buyers not to be fooled
out there. Wharf at King’s Cross, Kew Pier or insurance costs are high at around by temptingly low catalogue guide
The most obvious is to buy a property Canary Wharf, according to Nigel Day £1,000 per year and every seven or so prices.
being sold under shared ownership. of Riverhomes (riverhomes.co.uk). A years the boat will need taking into “Prices at auction start cheaper, but
Buying only a quarter or a third of a we get all the buyers to compete against
property is not everyone’s ideal, but it each other,” he said. “Be under no illu-
certainly is more affordable. sion that anything is cheaper at an
auction than it would be through an
GO EAST, STAY IN ZONE 2 estate agent.”
Southern Housing has just launched a Auction House London’s October
tranche of 25 shared-ownership homes sale, for example, had 50 London
at Bow River Village, east London. homes up for grabs. Just three of them
Prices start at just £117,250 for a 35 per sold for less than £180,000 — a tiny
cent share of a one-bedroom flat, and one-bedroom house in Hoe Street,
the cost of mortgage, rent, and service Walthamstow (£143,000); a three-bed-
charge together add up to £1,260. Two- room flat in an ex-local authority block
bedroom homes start at £141,750, and in Abbey Wood (£135,000) and a two-
the monthly cost works out at £1,526. bedroom purpose-built flat in Plum-
Visit shgroup.org.uk for details. stead (£170,000).
Bow is worth looking at for its great You’ll find dates and details of future
location, midway between Stratford Auction House London sales when you
and Canary Wharf, with the City fringes visit auctionhouselondon.co.uk — if
just to its west, and the millions of you do decide to bid, make sure you
pounds of regeneration money flowing have a mortgage agreed in advance.
inwards. It is in Zone 2, and is served And remember, never buy a property
by the Docklands Light Railway. without seeing it first.
WEST — NEAR LEAFY KEW SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
If you want a slightly leafier way of life, The other budget option is to go small
then Currell still has a few shared-own- with a studio. A refurbished studio
ership homes left at Vincent Place in room in a Thirties mansion block in
Isleworth, built on the site of the From £117,250: for a 35 per cent share of a one-bedroom flat at Bow River Village Balham High Road is on the market
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£155,000: in
Poplar Dock
Marina, E14, a
one-bedroom
houseboat, right,
for sale through
Riverhomes (020
8012 6048)
with Haart for £185,000 (haart.co.uk). culture have yet to arrive. Alan Ives £49,995: a four-
Plumstead is another place to look for (alanivesestatesse18.co.uk) is selling a berth Bermudian
value. Its proximity to the regenera- one-bedroom flat in a period house in cutter yacht at
tion at Woolwich Arsenal, not to men- Plumstead High Street for £179,995, Limehouse
tion the arrival of Crossrail in 2018, while Robinson Jackson has a one-bed- Basin, E14,
should boost this run-down neigh- room flat in a former local authority through Franklyn
bourhood. block in Nightingale Place listed with a James (020 8012
While regeneration has not yet guide price of £160,000 (robinson- 3936)
reached this south-east London out- jackson.com).
post, Plumstead has many of the raw Peabody housing association is spear-
materials required. Plumstead Com- heading a Plumstead regeneration
mon and Winn’s Common add up to plan, by award-winning architects Lif-
about 100 acres, and there’s some good schutz Davidson Sandilands, with new
Victorian and Edwardian housing homes and improvements to the High
stock, although gastropubs and café Street over the next five to 10 years.
£185,000: studio
flat in Du Cane
Court, right, a
Thirties mansion
block near
Balham Tube.
Through Haart
(0845 899 9999)
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Homes & Property | Commuting
Quit the L
ONDONERS in growing
numbers are unwillingly
joining the “£5k Club”.
That’s the group of unlucky
commuters who have to
stump up at least £5,000 a year for a
season ticket. Some pay £10,000 or
more a year for the privilege of
£5k club
finding a home in the sticks that they
can afford.
However, if instead they ploughed
that money into their repayment
mortgages, even at an interest rate
held at three per cent, and without
factoring in inevitable train fare rises
over the next 25 years, you could
have an extra £180,000 to spend on a
A £5,000 season ticket is becoming the norm home closer to your work.
No one wants to spend a fortune
for commuters searching for cheaper homes. just to battle on to an early morning
train to the office. The solution might
Ruth Bloomfield tells you where you can be to house hunt in one of the
save your money and still live near London locations where season tickets are
cheaper, homes are relatively
affordable, schools are good — and
the neighbourhood is interesting.
Here are some examples.
ESHER, SURREY
£1.55 million: a Affluent Surrey provides surprisingly
five-bedroom rich hunting ground for those willing
house with to spend no more than £3,000 per
swimming pool in year on the commute.
Brentwood, Essex Esher to Waterloo takes 31 minutes
— season ticket by train and an annual season ticket
£2,532. Through costs from £2,124. In the heart of
Hilberry Chaplain classic stockbroker belt, Esher is a
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(01277 567048) villagey town of smart boutiques,
plenty of restaurants and bars, and
the chance to spot a Chelsea player Breathtaking:
or two, since the club’s training above, the view
ground is in nearby Cobham. Esher over Dorking,
Church School, a primary, is rated Surrey, from Box
“outstanding” by Ofsted, while Esher Hill, a National
Church of England High School gets a Trust beauty
“good” report. Alex Herman, a spot in the North
Esher Green, partner at Knight Frank, said that Downs. Left,
Surrey: just 31 Esher’s homes above £2.5 million are Brentwood High
minutes by train not selling fast thanks to increases in Street in Essex
to Waterloo, an stamp duty, but below that things are mixes major
annual season humming along — with prices up chains and
ticket from Esher around five per cent last year. Buyers independent
costs from £2,124 could pick up a two- or three- boutiques
bedroom Victorian terrace for
£650,000 to £700,000, a four- to outskirts for about £1.4 million. season ticket costs from £1,820.
five-bedroom Thirties house from Trains to Victoria or Waterloo take Godstone is the perfect English
around £800,000, or blow the just over 50 minutes. An annual village, with its pretty green and duck
budget with a five- to six-bedroom, season ticket costs from £2,520. pond, cute timber-framed houses
detached period house for between and fine church. This thriving village
£1 million and £1.5 million. GODSTONE, SURREY has three pubs, a primary school and
a shop, plus an active football club.
DORKING, SURREY If you are prepared to get on your Colin Barwick, director of Rayners
bike, pretty Godstone is a good Town & Country estate agents, says
£715,000: a Dorking is less expensive, and you choice. An annual season ticket costs Godstone’s more practical
terrace house are 40 minutes from both London a hefty £3,776 but cycle a matter of advantages include proximity to the
with three and the coast. Dorking Halls has a minutes to nearby Oxted and you can M25 and a location within the green
bedrooms, one good programme of cultural events, get to London for an annual cost of belt. Expect to pay about £350,000
en suite, close to there is a cinema, good shops, and £2,168 — and you can cancel your for a two-bedroom cottage; the same
the station in Box Hill and Surrey Hills on the gym membership. for a three-bedroom Thirties semi, or
Esher. Through doorstep. “There is hardly a front Alternatively, make the three-mile £650,000-£700,000 for a detached
John D Wood door in Dorking from where you trip to Caterham and be in town in Victorian house with five or six
(01372 629009) cannot be in countryside within a 10 - just over 45 minutes. An annual bedrooms.
minute walk,” said James Cargin, a
partner at Patrick Gardner & Co BRENTWOOD, ESSEX
estate agents.
The area attracts families with its Good-value commuting options
schools. St Paul’s CofE (Aided) north and east of London include
Primary School is rated Brentwood in Essex. It’s famous for
“outstanding” by Ofsted and The Towie, of course, but there are some
Priory CofE Voluntary Aided School, lovely villages around the well-
for seniors, is “good”, according to stocked if slightly brash town. Trains
the schools watchdog. It is a safe and to Liverpool Street take just over half
pretty area and when teenagers get an hour and an annual season ticket
bored they can get more nightlife a costs from £2,532. It is also only a
20-minute drive away in Guildford. stop from Shenfield, which will join
£750,000: a four- Up to half of Cargin’s buyers are the Crossrail line in 2018, with
bedroom house in moving out of London — “usually services to the West End and
Dorking, Surrey — from SW-something”. Property Heathrow.
50-minute trains, options range from pretty two- Two local senior schools are
season ticket from bedroom cottages at about £250,000 “outstanding” — Becket Keys Church
£2,520. Through to three-bedroom Thirties semis for of England Free School and St
Cubitt & West about £500,000, to substantial five- Brentwood High Street: lovely nearby Martin’s School Brentwood. Nigel
(01306 301005) bedroom farmhouses on the villages and half-hour trains to town Coyne, managing director of Keith
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and a pre-school. Blackmore is one of Sandown Park: at
Chelmsford’s more exclusive villages the racecourse,
— expect to pay £400,000-plus for a above, in Esher,
three-bedroom semi, which range Ladies’ Day VIPs
from post-war homes to period including TV
timber-frame houses. Modern four- presenter Donna
bedroom detached houses are Air, far right
around £450,000 to £500,000, while
a picturesque manor house with five four- to five-bedroom manor house Chorleywood Common. It has great
bedrooms and two or three acres set in an acre or two. schools: Christ Church Chorleywood
would cost around £1.5 million. CofE School (primary) and St
Ingrave village is a couple of miles CHORLEYWOOD, HERTS Clement Danes School (senior) hold
south of Brentwood with a pub, a “outstanding” Ofsted reports. There
shop, a school and a trio of golf clubs. Hertfordshire is an option for value- are multimillion-pound trophy
Thorndon Country Park is also very seekers. It includes Chorleywood, a homes behind locked gates, but you
close by for nature walks. Prices here half-hour hop to Marylebone for an can find three-bedroom properties at
Ashton estate agents, recommends and school. There is a farmers’ range from £400,000 to £500,000 annual price of £2,568, with about £650,000. There are plenty of
Blackmore, a lovely medieval village market, an annual bonfire night for a three-bedroom semi, but you independent shops and cafés in its restaurants and pubs, and Heathrow
six miles to the north with pub, shops display, a sports club, a youth club, could pay well over £1 million for a high street, and the open space of and the M25 are near-ish.
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Homes & Property | Homes abroad
Marbella has bling
but plenty of style
This magnet for the
rich and famous is
leading the recovery
on the Costas with
pretty village houses
and £116k seaside flats.
By Cathy Hawker
M
ARBELLA comes with
a loaded reputation.
It’s shorthand for
super-yachts, super
cars and super-size
bling, but it is also the undoubted minor celebs, but the exclusive Charming plaza:
property hotspot of the Costa del Sol. Marbella Club and Puente Romano street cafés and
European royal families and Hotels on Marbella’s Golden Mile are restaurants in
Hollywood stars who came in the still the places to be seen in summer. Marbella town’s
Fifties and Sixties have been largely Marbella’s appeal is based on easy Orange Square,
replaced by Arab royalty hidden access, strong infrastructure and a which dates back
behind high palace walls, and by winning location, says Christopher to 1485
Clover of Savills associate, Panorama From £694,000: years. Icon offers large, detached
Properties. “Marbella is at the most three- and four- villas on big plots with good views
southerly point of Europe sheltered bedroom villas at over the golf course and to the sea,
by La Concha mountain. Wonderful Icon in the hills and — unusually — a full concierge
weather is a major draw,” he adds. above the Golden service and property management.
“Malaga airport has been Mile (savills.com) In glass, white stone and wood, the
transformed and offers direct flights open-plan designs by six different
to 125 destinations. Cordoba, Seville architects are all strikingly
and Grenada are within three hours contemporary.
and Madrid is two-and-a-half hours Villas at Icon start from £694,000
on the high-speed AVE trains.” for three- and four-bedroom homes of
In addition, all of Andalucía’s 2,690sq ft, and from £1,304,000 for
fabulous Pueblos Blancos — the the 20 signature villas of 3,767sq ft.
historic Moorish White Towns — are Buyers have come from across Europe
nearby. This is the most year-round of and the first residents move in at the
all the Spanish Costas, with enough start of next year.
residents even in winter to ensure
restaurants and bars stay open, while RESALE HOMES
the weather encourages an active, The overwhelming majority of sales
outdoor lifestyle. The Costa del Sol in Spain are resale homes, perceived
has 90 golf courses, 42 of them within as more affordable, and currently in
30 minutes of Marbella. far greater supply than new build.
Resales in Marbella include a three-
THE BUILDERS ARE BACK bedroom townhouse on the
“Prices have fallen up to 50 per cent prestigious Golden Mile — the road
in some parts of the Costa del Sol linking the east to Puerto Banus in
since 2008, so second-home values the west — reduced from £540,500 to
are now very good,” says Joanna £382,000 through Panorama
Leverett of Cluttons. “Marbella is the Properties. The attractive home is in
main prime market and is leading a Lomas Pueblo, an Andalucían-style
slow recovery. You can get a two- village with 90 homes set around a
bedroom flat along the coast from communal pool and clubhouse, with
£116,000 and a good apartment in cobbled streets, small fountains and
Marbella with sea views for around pretty gardens. It’s a peaceful and
£700,000.” delightfully Spanish setting, yet the
After eight years of falling prices beach is only a 10-minute walk away.
and little new construction, the £212,500: a two- Annual community charge is £2,300.
cranes are back. A prime example is bedroom village A three-bedroom duplex with partial
Icon, a development in the hills house with roof sea views in a gated community
above the Golden Mile, where terrace in Ojen, within Las Lomas del Marbella
Spanish developer Urbania has plans near Marbella. Club on the Golden Mile is for sale at
to build 200 homes over the next six Through Cluttons £251,000, also through Panorama.
With some modernisation the
1,280sq ft property would make an
ideal holiday home, 15 minutes from
the beach and with three communal
pools, tennis courts, a gym and sauna.
Five miles north of Marbella, a
charmingly renovated old village
house in quiet Ojen is £212,500
through Cluttons. It has two
bedrooms and a roof terrace giving
views across the white rooftops to the
mountains and the sea.
O Panorama Properties (through
Savills): savills.com (020 7016 3740)
O Cluttons: cluttons.com (020 7408
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Homes & Property | Design trends
S
CORN pastels this spring, the
mood in interiors, as on the
catwalk, is black — along with
indigo and other dark, sultry
shades, especially used as
intense backgrounds for lighter tones.
Fashion giant Topshop, calling the
trend “rebel-pretty”, has lifted the
Turn to the dark side
delicate Wild Strawberry print from Like the catwalk, spring interiors feature inky-black backgrounds
the archive of British china favourite
Wedgwood and souped it up with a
that make brighter colours pop, discovers Barbara Chandler
black background, modelled by Bella
Hadid. It features on new-season soft London light. Once I started I
skirts, blouses, even a jumpsuit. never looked back.” Ahern has
“The black background adds a written a best-selling book (Colour,
wonderful sense of subversion to one Quadrille, £24) as a dark home
of Wedgwood’s most iconic patterns,” manifesto, and now has her own
says Geoff Finch, Topshop’s creative popular paint range.
design consultant. Meanwhile, Nourishing the noir in east London
Wedgwood itself has lavished it on a is House of Hackney, which created
bone china cup and saucer. dark fabrics for furnishings and
“The new trend for dark is fashion soon after launching in 2010.
completely different from that rather Its brand has grown into a ritzy
bleak mono look,” says Kate Watson- double-fronted flagship in Shoreditch
Smyth, author of a breezy new book High Street. “We use a special mix of
Shades of Grey (Ryland Peters & blue and black which we call
Small, £19.99), packed with personal midnight,” says co-founder Frieda
tips and down-to-earth colour Gormley. “We’ve used it for our new
suggestions in the style of her award- William Morris collaboration, adding
winning blog, Mad About The House. huge aquamarine acanthus leaves for
“Dark backgrounds are the new a fresh, bright take on dark.”
neutrals, whether navy, bitter
chocolate or charcoal. They cry out HIS DARK MATERIALS
for added colour, which could be In Paris, Sacha Walckhoff, creative
pastel, primary or neon.” The director of Christian Lacroix Maison, Gold for advises: “Add two or three bright
darkness behind brings the colours uses black liberally for a stunning glamour: the accent colours, then soften the space
forward and makes them “pop”, she spring collection, new in at Designers small cabinet with textured furnishings — heavy
adds. Watson-Smyth suggests going Guild in King’s Road, Chelsea. “Black from Jonathan weaves or brushed velvets. Warm
dark by stages, doing perhaps a piece enhances other colours,” he says. “It Adler’s Rider golds and metallics will add glamour.”
of furniture first, then adding walls. brings depth, mystery, and chic.” Collection, in Melanie Adams, director of a
She has painted a set of shelves a very Black is great for a background, he glossy black “designer paint” website, says you
dark grey, and loves it contrasted with adds, “but enlighten it with colours lacquer with need a good-quality opaque paint.
bright flowers, vases, and glassware. and shine, using metal and mirrors.” antiqued brass Her favourites include Squid Ink
“Pictures look so much better on Even Sanderson, fount of chintz, has details and from Paint Library, Prussian from
dark walls,” she adds. Her own home added black to its famous roses. Perspex finials. Zoffany, and Tollard Royal from
in Crouch End sports Farrow & Ball “Black is the go-to shade for making Priced £1,074 Albany. She used Little Greene’s
Down Pipe, but she also recommends colours stand out,” confirms studio at jonathan Smalt in a small bathroom — “our
Night Jewels by Wickes, and Dulux design manager Rebecca Craig. She adler.com budget white tiles and towels and
Urban Obsession. white porcelain fittings now look
fabulous and much more expensive.”
PAINT IT BLACK Rebel-pretty: Explore options and order from
Abigail Ahern, who opened her cult Bella Hadid at designerpaint.com, a trading name
boutique in Upper Street, N1, in the Topshop for the old-established brand of
2004, is a self-confessed dark Unique spring/ Brewers, supplier to the Queen. You
interiors addict. Originally, the shop summer show; can have home delivery or “click and
had white walls, “then it all started right, the collect” from 19 London stores.
with one dark wall. Things looked Wedgwood- Charlotte Sumner and Camilla
better and sold more quickly.” Topshop Unique Frances Blunt, who launched a new
Now she also has dark walls Blackbird tea cup Hackney-based furnishing fabrics
throughout her four-storey Victorian and saucer, £75 brand at Maison & Objet in January,
house in Dalston. “People think dark at wedgwood. say: “Dark florals are so versatile.
is depressing, but it’s cosy, chic, co.uk Men love them, or they can toughen
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sophisticated, and looks great in our up a girly room.”
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right, Original
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By Barbara Chandler
Five things 3
to do in
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) 1 Heal’s Modern Craft Market 2016,
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Tottenham Court Road, W1 (heals.
com; 020 7896 7451).
Design Ireland (March 7-27) brings 20
Irish artist/craftworkers including involved in a “proper” spring clean.
ceramicist Adam Frew (pictured), to Check out an intriguing programme
the famous furniture store’s windows, of talks and workshops.
with demos, workshops, and textiles
and homewares to sell. From March 4 The Spring Knitting & Stitching Show,
30-April 4, designers make wooden tomorrow until Sunday at Olympia,
furniture in The Great Heal’s Bodging Hammersmith Road, W14 (theknitting
Race. Finally, British designer-makers andstitchingshow.com; 01473 321872).
showcase screen printing, leather Adults £16, concs £15, five-18s £7; £8
working and other skills. Free party on the door tomorrow, 3pm-7pm. Two-
night is March 17, from 6pm-9pm. for-one when you show this paper.
Up to 200 companies will be selling
2 Gravity by Fredrikson Stallard, sewing, knitting and craft supplies
March 9-April 9 at David Gill Gallery, and offering expert tips, with demos
2-4 King Street, SW1 (fredrikson and workshops to suit everyone from
stallard.com; 020 3195 6600). the novice to the pro. Learn basic
See sculptural limited-edition hand or machine sewing, knitting and
furniture by London designer-artists crochet and get dressmaking tips.
Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard. Browse work by top textile artists and
Tables and mirrors are hand-formed meet stars from BBC2’s Great British
out of huge sheets of mirror-polished
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(pictured), carved from polyurethane
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Four hundred years of domestic Sewing Bee. This Woolly Mammals
for a taste of McCarthy & Stone retirement service are brought to life in period bear (above) is from a range of knitted
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and paintings. See how servant-
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Homes & Property | Design
TOM BARTLETT
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNER
T
OM BARTLETT founded
his Clerkenwell-based
architectural and interior
design studio, Waldo
Works, 11 years ago. Its
major projects include Neo Bankside,
the beauty floor at Fortnum & Mason,
and Selfridges’ international
customer services lounge. Its interiors
for the Smythson flagship store in
New York will be unveiled later this
month. Bartlett is also a design
partner at Jade Jagger for Yoo.
WHERE I LIVE
ALAMY
I live in College Park, in Kensal
Green. I grew up in Notting Hill — my Break-the-mould London buildings: Tom Bartlett, left, loves Art Deco St Olaf House, above left, at London Bridge; centre,
parents are still in the house I was an east London building covered in a Camille Walala mural; right, a Wren retreat, St Stephen Walbrook church in the City
born in, and this was the most
affordable area nearby. In the late
JOAKIM BLOCKSTROM
Nineties I bought a warehouse. It’s a
former make-up compact factory. I
added another floor to either end for
bedrooms, and there’s a big double-
height space in the middle. I set up
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MY INSIDER TIPS
The first: don’t ever mess with a
scaffolder in London. The second: if
you need respite from the rush, if you
get overwhelmed, pop into a church.
my own practice when I moved in. It’s one of the most amazing things
Kensal Green is a big multicultural you can do — and they’re usually
mix. It’s Portuguese, Brazilian, free. I love Wren’s St Stephen
Persian. There’s Kensal Green Walbrook in the City.
Cemetery, which is dilapidated and
picturesque, and some interesting MOST AMAZING
design places — Retrouvius and Circus ARCHITECTURE
in Chamberlayne Road for antiques, Weirdly for a contemporary designer,
and the florist Scarlet & Violet. I love Wren and Hawskmoor. I also
like to look out for little (or large)
MY HOME INTERIORS eccentric surprises, such as the Fifties
I’m expanding the layout again at the glass entrance at St Mary’s Hospital in
moment because I’ve got a son and we South Wharf Road; St Olaf House on
need space. My place is pretty white Tooley Street, and The Blackfriar pub
and crisp — there’s one black room near Blackfriars Bridge — all places
where I have a little TV snug area, but that break the mould.
it has a blue resin floor and is full of
colourful furniture. Like anyone who CULTURAL HOTSPOT
works in architecture and interiors, The ceramics gallery at the V&A and
you still end up with the sofa that its new Toshiba Japanese Gallery are
didn’t fit or the cushion that didn’t pretty perfect. I am excited about
work. You try and get the best out of John Pawson’s new Design Museum.
your interiors, but I always think
people go over the top about paint, COVETED OBJECT
Dulux is brilliant. And frankly you can Coveted object: Tom Bartlett bought a My style: Bartlett’s Waldo Works studio I’ve just ordered a terrarium [a closed-
mix your own paint in two seconds, terrarium from Hermetica London designed Fortnum’s beauty floor, above. glass container for plants] from
so that’s what I save on. Right, a Hiroshima chair, from Maruni Hermetica London. There’s some-
thing really wonderful about them.
TOP TALENT But I’ve got my eye on a table and the
My company is working with Hiroshima chairs from Maruni,
ceramicist Bridget Tennant who designed by Jasper Morrison. It is a
makes customised things in porce- Japanese company (maruni.com) and
lain, such as lighting. Designer we’ve used them in Selfridges.
Martino Gamper is a firm favourite
with the studio, while Bill Amberg is MY TECH TIP
the only man to go to for architec- The Cityplanner app is the best thing
tural leather work. Jasper Morrison’s ever. You can plan your life through it.
shop on Kingsland Road is a delight. And it’s so great when you move city,
There’s a great little collective in it seamlessly transfers you through
Haggerston called Nocturne London, New York, or wherever. I’m
Workshop, run by Simon Day and very interested in the new iPad — the
Emma Peascod. The postmodern idea of being able to draw directly on
work by people such as textile to a device and then print it out and
designer Camille Walala is rather Perfect porcelain: send it to someone is great.
cool, and there are some very good ceramicist Bridget
graphics. Tennant’s work FAVOURITE GALLERY
ranges from The galleries around Herald Street in
FAVOURITE simple pots, above, Bethnal Green are particularly good,
HOMEWARES SHOP to customised including Maureen Paley, and my
Labour and Wait on Redchurch lighting sister’s gallery, the Laura Bartlett
Street is consistently good, while Gallery. I also like Limoncello in
Viaduct is obviously the only place Furniture design: Kingsland Road.
for modern furniture. I like going to a Plan cabinet,
Lamb’s Conduit Street— Darkroom right, by Jasper DREAM PROPERTY
sells great eclectic designer Morrison Having lived in an urban contempo-
accessories and homewares. rary space for 20 years, I would love
And the wonderful haberdashers, a beautifully proportioned Georgian
Temptation Alley, on Portobello Craftsmanship: room with three good windows
Road, is the cheaper version of architectural overlooking a leafy, quiet square in
VV Rouleaux for edgings. I have a leatherwork, the centre of town. So Fitzroy or
thing about manufactum.co.uk far right, from Bloomsbury Square would be lovely,
for really covetable household items Bill Amberg please.
— particularly its Austrian blue (billambergstudio.
enamel pans. com) O waldoworks.comYou can also read
