£25 million: the rare ‘double’ house in Cornwell Terrace
(Picture: Arlington Residential)An extremely rare, empty-shell "double house" overlooking Regent’s Park has been listed for sale for £25 million.
The highly unusual property is made up of two Grade I-listed homes set behind distinctive white-stucco facades that have been joined together by their current owners.
To be sold in "shell condition", the home has planning permission and relevant consents for a total transformation into a 9,213 sq ft home — more than nine times the size of the average property in England and Wales.
It’s located on Cornwell Terrace, thought contain Britain’s most expensive terrace houses, where a single property sold in 2013 for a record-breaking £80 million. Local celebrities have included fashion favourites Tom Ford and Stefano Gabbana.
Photographs on the listing with Arlington Residential show computer-generated images of what the five-bedroom home could look like once finished and furnished. Planned features at the five-storey property include a lower-ground garage, "morning room", library/cigar room, club room and whisky bar, plus a master suite that spans the entire second floor.
“It’s completely unmodernised and has been taken back to brick,” said Mark Schneiderman of Arlington Residential. “Somebody can, within reason, do whatever they want to do in the house.”
Being offered with a lease of 143 years, the home on the south-west corner of Regent’s Park is within walking distance of Marybone and the West End.
Schneiderman believes it’s the first of its kind to become available in decades: "The rarity of getting a double house in the Nash terraces is pretty special. There are only a handful in existence."
Damien Hirst is reported to have spent £34 million on a 14-bedroom villa on Hanover Terrace, and Sacha Baron Cohen sold his Chester Terrace home in December 2018 for a staggering £15.5 million.
