Hidden away behind high walls on a somewhat unprepossessing street on the fringes of St John’s Wood is a low-built, white stucco Georgian house entirely surrounded by a large garden.
No wonder then that Kate Moss, that once most elusive of supermodels, chose it t back in 2002 when she bought the six-bedroom house for £1.75 million.
Moss lived in the 4,740sq ft house on and off with her daughter Lila Grace.
“The beauty of being here is you’re unseen from the road and past owners have liked that.
“The privacy of the house, the fact it’s got a fabulous walled garden is a real selling point of the property.
“It’s quite anonymous, there are plenty of people out there that want houses that don’t scream wealth and are a little more discreet,” said Marc Schneiderman of Arlington Residential who is marketing the property.
Moss put her own stamp on the décor, with a neon lit party area and a jungle themed living room, touches which have since been stripped out in favour of more neutral décor.
She then sold up in 2012 around the peak of the London property market. The current owners bought the property from the model for £6.85 million and have now put it on the market for £5.95 million.
Schneiderman says downward pricing like this is not uncommon in today’s market. “In 2014 the market really fell away. Now we’re selling houses for owners that bought them in the last 10 years or so perhaps at less than they paid for them,” he says.
The agent has a long association with the property as it was one of the first he sold 30 years ago, when it went for £800,000, “which at the time was a very good price”.
By the time Moss bought it a basement extension had been added, which now features an open plan kitchen dining room and living space.
Upstairs there are a large formal drawing room leading on to a full-width terrace, a mezzanine with two bedrooms on it, the first floor with the principal bedroom with an en suite bathroom and two adjoining dressing rooms as well as two further bedrooms, and an attic floor given over to storage.
