Sloane House, Chelsea

Sloane House
The house in 2016
Sloane House, Chelsea is located in Greater London
Sloane House, Chelsea
Location within Greater London
General information
LocationOld Church Street, Chelsea, London, England
Coordinates51°29′17″N 0°10′30″W / 51.4881°N 0.1749°W / 51.4881; -0.1749
Year builtLate 18th century
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name
Sloane House
Designated24 June 1954
Reference no.1266196

Sloane House is a late 18th-century house on Old Church Street in Chelsea, London.

The 1991 London: North West volume of the Pevsner Architectural Guides described Sloane House as a "good C18 house of five bays with broad arched doorway of two columns and a decorated upper string course".[1] It has been listed at Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since June 1954.[2]

History

From 1845 to 1881 the house was a residence for "ladies suffering from the milder forms of mental disease".[3] It was the residence of Guy Granet and his wife from February 1924.[4] In the late 1920s it was bought by Geoffrey Fry.[5][6] A Mrs Hillgarth was resident in 1945.[7] The historian John Ehrman was resident in the 1960s.[8] Oil trader Ely Calil was resident for many years at Sloane House and sold it to Anthony Bamford in 2004 for £45 million.[9][10] Bamford bought Sloane House with the adjoining Sloane Lodge and intended to join the two houses together to create a house of 24,000 square feet (2,200 m2).[10] It was put up for sale in 2009 for £79 million.[10] Bamford's plans were opposed by the Chelsea Society who found "every aspect of the application objectionable".[11] In 2010 it was bought by heiress Petra Ecclestone and her husband James Stunt for almost £60 million.[12] The couple spent two years renovating the house with Casa Forma to create a residence of 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2).[12] Following Ecclestone's renovations the house had 14 bedrooms and a substantial basement. The basement of the house has a gym, a spa, a salon, an indoor swimming pool, squash courts, a children's playroom and a screening room. The large hallway has a mirrored bar that "converts into a DJ station". In 2019 Ecclestone offered the house for sale for £150 million and "at least" £175 million in 2021.[13] Gangster Terry Adams of the Clerkenwell crime syndicate lived at Sloane House in 2017 when it was the residence of James Stunt, the estranged partner of Ecclestone.[14] Stunt was given two days to leave Sloane House at a court hearing in 2017 following his estrangement from Ecclestone.[12] The house was the subject of a feature in Architectural Digest in 2021.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Bridget Cherry; Nikolaus Pevsner (March 1991). London 3: North West. Yale University Press. p. 587. ISBN 978-0-300-09652-1.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Sloane House (Grade II) (1266196)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  3. ↑ Hibbert, Christopher; Weinreb, Ben (2008). The London Encyclopaedia. London: Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5.
  4. ↑ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 43580. 20 February 1924. p. 15. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  5. ↑ Zinovieff, Sofka (2016). The mad boy, Lord Berners, my grandmother and me. London: Vintage Books. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-09-957196-4.
  6. ↑ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 46798. 5 July 1934. p. 17. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  7. ↑ "Court Circular". The Times. No. 50272. 13 October 1945. p. 7. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  8. ↑ "Nuclear Weapons". The Times. No. 54899. 11 October 1960. p. 13. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  9. ↑ "Obituary: Ely Calil". The Times. No. 72553. 5 June 2025. p. 53. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  10. 1 2 3 Steele, Francesca (19 June 2009). "Bigger is Better". The Times. No. 69666. p. 137. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  11. ↑ "2008 annual report of the Chelsea Society" (PDF). 2008 annual report of the Chelsea Society. Chelsea Society. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  12. 1 2 3 Rose, Hilary (3 July 2017). "The billionaire's daughters: huge wealth, not enough happiness". The Times. No. 72265. p. 17. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  13. 1 2 Foxman, Ariel (15 October 2021). "An Exclusive Look Inside Petra Ecclestone's Sprawling London Estate". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  14. ↑ "Gang made Krays 'look like clowns'". The Times. No. 72269. 7 July 2017. p. 3. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
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