The Eaton Square property was home to former PM Margaret Thatcher when she left Downing Street in 1990.
(Picture: ES Composite)A grand, white stucco-fronted London home that has been home to two former Prime Ministers — Stanley Baldwin and Margaret Thatcher — is for sale in one of the UK's most exclusive streets.
With a price tag of £23 million, the Grade II-listed apartment is arranged over the two lower floors of 93 Eaton Square, Belgravia, London’ s largest garden square to which only the surrounding homeowners are offered access.
The super-home package includes a central courtyard patio and an interconnecting two-bedroom mews house with its own entrance in Eaton Mews North.
From 1913 to 1937, the property belonged to three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his wife Lucy. The couple entertained politicians there including Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, the latter living directly across the square at number 37.
Royal guests at the home during Baldwin's ownership included the Prince of Wales who later became King Edward VIII. It's rumoured the men disliked each other instantly.
On retirement, Stanley Baldwin and his wife moved to 69 Eaton Square and the property now for sale was bought by the eldest grandson of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford.
Henry Ford II passed away while the extensive renovations were taking place but his wife Kathleen DuRoss Ford continued with the epic transformation and lived there until her death last year.
When Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left office in 1990, DuRoss Ford lent her and her husband Denis the property until they found and bought their home in nearby Chester Square the following year.
Packed with original Regency features, the properties for sale for £23 million in Eaton Square are being sold by the executor of Kathleen DuRoss Ford's estate.
There are six bedrooms in total, plus potential to extend the property by around 600 square foot by creating a new, lower-ground floor in the mews house that would link to the existing lower-ground floor of the main apartment.
The mews house has an integral car garage, a wine cellar and two large reception rooms - one of which could make an ideal studio, office or gym space.
Other properties in the street have already been extended to create a full lower-ground floor and Beauchamp Estates, who are marketing the property, estimate an extended and refurbished super home could be worth up to £30 million.
