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Changeover day:
Flexible
Access:
Car advised Nearest amenities: 0.1 km
Notes:
No pets allowed Suitable for children No smoking at this property Self-catering
Home description
The property is located in the heart of Marylebone, just a short walk from Marble Arch, Oxford Street and Hyde Park. Local amenities include a variety of restaurants, bars and shops, creating a vibrant atmosphere. The nearest underground stations are Marble Arch (Central line) and Bond Street (Central and Jubilee lines). The house is arranged over six storeys, comprising four bedrooms, five bathrooms, approximately measuring 4500 sq ft and has a patio garden at the rear. The property is newly refurbished to an exceptionally high standard, beautifully presented and fully furnished. Internally, the property is finished using a combination of traditional and contemporary styles, including hardwood flooring, marble and limestone, plasma screen TV's, DVD & surround sound systems, satellite, CCTV, alarm, full air-conditioning and sauna. Airport service available and Linen Service available.
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The South East England / Greater London region
Very centrally located for shopping , restaurants and easy access via train and car for the rest of the country.
Central London/Zone 1 / Marylebone area
Streets of Marylebone: Mansfield Street is a short continuation of Chandos Street built by the Adam brothers in 1770, on a plot of ground which had been underwater. Most of its houses are fine buildings with exquisite interiors, when put on the market now will have a price tag in excess of £10 million. It has attracted people who understand attractive buildings - at Number 13 lived religious architect John Loughborough Pearson who died in 1897, and Drogo & Delhi designer Sir Edwin Lutyens, who died in 1944. Immediately across the road at 61 New Cavendish Street lived Natural History Museum creator Alfred Waterhouse.
Queen Anne Street is an elegant cross-street which unites the northern end of Chandos Street with Welbeck Street. The painter JMW Turner moved to 47 Queen Anne Street in 1812 from 64 Harley Street, now divided into numbers 22 and 23, and owned the house until his death in 1851. It was known as "Turner's Den", becoming damp, dilapidated, dusty, dirty, with dozens of Turner's works of art now in the National Gallery scattered throughout the house, walls covered in tack holes and a drawing room peopled by cats with no tails.
Wimpole Street runs from Henrietta Place north to Devonshire Street, becoming Upper Wimpole enroute - the latter where Arthur Conan Doyle opened his ophthalmic practice at number 2 in 1891. A six-floor, Grade II 18th-century house at 57 Wimpole Street is where Paul McCartney resided from 1964-66, staying on the top floor of girlfriend Jane Asher’s family home in a room overlooking Browning Mews in the back, and with John Lennon writing I Want to Hold Your Hand on a piano in the basement. At her father's house at number 50 lived for some time between 1840 and 1845, Miss Elizabeth Barrett, then known as the author of a volume of poems, and who afterwards escaped and was better known as Mrs. E. Browning. Today, at the bottom end of Wimpole at Wigmore can be found a sandwich shop named "Barrett's". Not a chain store.
Bentinck Street leaves Welbeck Street and touches the middle of winding Marylebone Lane. Charles Dickens lived at number 18 with his indebted father (aka Wilkins Micawber) while working as a court reporter in the 1830s, and Edward Gibbon wrote much of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire while living at number 7 from the early 1770s. James Smithson wrote the will that led to the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution while living at number 9 in 1826, while number 10 was briefly graced by Chopin in 1848, who found his apartment too expensive and moved to Mayfair. More recently, Cambridge Spies Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess shared a flat at an unrecorded Bentinck Street address during the Second World War, as did Swinging Sixties two-some John Dunbar and TV repairman “Magic Alex”, where the former introduced the latter to John Lennon in 1967.
Marylebone has some “Fabs” heritage, overall, also with a Ringo flat at 34 Montagu Square, and the original Apple Corps HQ at 95 Wigmore Street.
Welbeck Street at the intersection of a right turn onto Bentinck Street was the location of a near-fatal traffic accident for Sherlock Holmes in The Final Problem, soon followed by a falling brick in Vere Street - Moriarty's work, most likely.
Bulstrode Street, small and charming, is named for a Portman family estate in Buckinghamshire, itself named after a local family there made-good in Tudor days. Tucked away, with a few terraced houses, Bulstrode has been the home of minor health care professionals for hundreds of years. RADA student and aspiring actress Vivien Leigh, aged twenty in 1933, gave birth at the Rahere Nursing Home, then at number 8, to her first child. Also, a small tubercular patch in her lungs was discovered.
The north end of Welbeck joins New Cavendish Street, the name changed from Upper Marylebone Street in the late nineteenth century. At a house across New Cavendish from its join with Welbeck, that stood at number 13 on the corner of Marylebone Street, was born in 1882 Leopold Stokowski, son of a Polish cabinet maker. Young Stokowski sang in the choir of St Marylebone Church.
How to get there
Heathrow to Paddington express train. Closet tube is Marylebone which is also a mainline station. By car into London via A40.
Nearest Travel Links
Airport:
Heathrow: 30 km
Railway:
Marylebone
Activities near Central London/Zone 1
Good nightlife City breaks
Facilities
Luxuries:
Sauna, Internet access, DVD player
General:
Central heating, Air conditioning, CD player, Telephone, Fax, Safe, Satellite TV, Wi-fi available
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