If you want a luxury residence in London with historic or celebrity connection, you don’t have to look far. The city has a generous supply of charming buildings that date back centuries, and many where nobility, politicians, or contemporary famous faces have lived. This address in Mayfair is a prime example.
Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill spent his earliest years at 48 Berkeley Square, residing there from when he was born in 1874 to 1879. However, at the time, his family could never have known that he would end up being the second prime minister to live there. Here’s a bit more tea. Charles Grey, who was prime minister of the UK from 1830 to 1834 and the person Earl Grey tea was named after, called it home with his wife and 15 children in the 1830s and 1840s.
Later in 1906, the manor was converted into apartments and it’s currently the only residential building on Berkeley Square. You can live there next if you have £6.5 million to spend as a 1,860-square-foot apartment on the third floor just became available.
Composed of two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a kitchen, and a 37-foot reception room, the unit has a clear focal point. You can just imagine a young Churchill and his parents, Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Jeanette Churchill, or Grey and his family entertaining important guests in the expansive reception room with a refined fireplace and five windows looking out to greenery.
Walking out of the Mayfair building, you may feel like you’re in a scene of Mary Poppins. Originally devised by architect William Ken in the mid-18th century, Berkeley Square is an idyllic place to read or daydream. It even inspired the song “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,” sung by Vera Lynn in 1939.
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