What you can get for £15,000,000 in London vs the countryside

Whether or not you’re dreaming of a metropolis excessive rise or a countryside property, right here’s the perfect of the perfect (Image: Metro.co.uk)

City or Nation? With an imaginary (sadly) £15million, we have a look at what you can get.

Are you a city or nation type of an individual? Are you at house amongst Chelsea tractors or precise tractors? Choose the excitement of the smoke or the tweeting of the birds?

Because the 1700s, when folks have been pushed by enclosure acts and pulled by the commercial revolution, inhabitants tendencies have veered strongly from the agricultural to the city.

However the latest craving for returning to bucolic romanticism has been bolstered by the pandemic, with its threats of plague-wracked cities and its alternatives for distant working.

So right here’s a query. Should you had a wodge to spend – let’s name it £15million – would you like to stay within the metropolis or the nation? Right here’s two beautiful properties which could enable you resolve.

Mayfair

Ought to you need a spot within the metropolis, you may’t say fairer than Mayfair.

The realm bordered by Hyde Park, Inexperienced Park, Piccadilly, Regent Avenue and Oxford Avenue has lengthy been one in all London’s prime spots, so let’s head straight for the recent zone.

Location is all the pieces (Image: Grant Frazer)

Not a nasty entrance

Clarges Mayfair is a brand new Portland stone-facaded improvement on Piccadilly, throughout from the Ritz Lodge and overlooking Inexperienced Park, with 9 storeys above floor and three under – effectively, you want someplace to stash the residents-only well being spa, swimming pool, gymnasium and private-hire Artwork Deco cinema.

With its personal unique entry boulevard – Ashburton Place, granted Mayfair’s first new postcode in 20 years – it accommodates 34 residences firmly aimed on the Extremely Excessive Web Price market.

The declare, unsubstantiable however unignorable, is that it’s house to extra millionaires, billionaires and celebs than some other new residence block in our honest capital – however amongst such firm, dropping names with a clang can be infra dig, darling.

For £14.5million you may swan amongst the good set by shopping for Condominium 4.03, a three-bed pad with 2,889sq ft of dwelling area and no fewer than eight Juliet balconies.

5 are on the opposite aspect of the floor-to-ceiling home windows within the double-aspect reception room, which is a shade beneath 40ft throughout; then there’s one in every of the three en-suite bedrooms.

Smooth metropolis dwelling is what this constructing is all about

Not a nasty place for a dip (Image: Clarges Mayfair)

(There's a windowless inner room – at present used as a big-telly media den – which you can convert right into a bed room for a heliophobe.)

Linking all these is a pleasingly sizeable entrance corridor, excellent for hanging your Pollocks and Picassos.

Off this can be a rest room for visitors to powder their noses, and as you’d count on the fitted kitchen is lavishly geared up with swish home equipment atop and beneath the brown-veined marble tiling and worktops.

The decor is Deco-tinged, with smooth chrome fixtures and built-in mirrors.

Certainly, the entire Clarges constructing has overtones of that wonderful period, particularly within the 60ft-high atrium (topped by the spectacular Amaranthyne dome lighting construction designed by Haberdashery) and chic reception, the place the 24-hour concierge sits patiently in entrance of a bespoke Yasemen Hussein copper sculpture primarily based on the Elizabethan-era Piccadilly Ruff neckwear.

However what if you wish to go even additional again in historical past? What in case your coronary heart yearns for the traditional idyll of the countryside? Then you definitely’d higher saddle up your steed and set course for Surrey…

Cobham

Henry VIII was an acquisitive soul – simply ask these whose monasteries he dissolved, or Cardinal Wolsey, from whom he liberated Hampton Courtroom Palace.

One other slice of Merrie England beneath Hank’s hand was the Chobham Park property, which he acquired in 1535 from the Abbot of Chertsey and bequeathed to his daughter Mary I, England’s first ruling queen. And now, the 100-acre property could be yours, if you happen to hand over that £15m we mentioned earlier.

For countryside lovers, area is all the pieces

On a sunny day this is able to be heaven

You received’t get to stomp the identical flooring as Henry and Mary: Historic England’s Grade II itemizing units the present manor home as ‘circa 1700, reusing older supplies’.

It’s a pleasant three-storey, brown- and red-brick affair, standing on the outdated moated web site – there was a dwelling right here for a minimum of 1,000 years, and also you don’t get moats spherical hovels.

Inside, a 37ft reception corridor offers on to a 29ft drawing room with bay window; elsewhere on the bottom ground, together with the outdated picket ceiling beams and deep-set fireplaces, there’s a kitchen/breakfast room, examine, eating room, household room and laundry.

On the primary ground there’s an excellent bay-windowed, 20ft-wide main bedroom, with related dressing room, plus three extra bedrooms, two bogs, one other examine and a 24ft triple-aspect sitting room.

The second ground provides one other 4 beds, three baths (one en-suite) and one other sitting room.

Subsequent to the principle home is a former coach home, with a 23ft health club and garaging for 4 vehicles under a 23ft billiards room. Throughout the courtyard, a barn has been transformed into workplace and assembly area.

You’d undoubtedly should undertake a no sneakers coverage

The picket beams give the home a country appeal

Then there’s the timber-framed tithe barn, with two bedrooms and a gallery above an unlimited 45ft x 18ft reception room, plus its personal landscaped non-public backyard.

And at last, Chobham Park Cottage supplies a 23ft reception room, 23ft eating room with kitchen, examine and en-suite bed room, whereas the adjoining however separate Little Chobham Park Cottage provides two beds, reception room and kitchen. All instructed, the outbuildings add 7,233sq ft to the principle house’s 8,427.

Elsewhere on the property you’ve received formal gardens, a tennis courtroom and a swimming pool. Located between (however safely distant from) Woking and Bracknell, Chobham Park is near the M3, which your chauffeur will recognize.

Henry VIII would perceive, however then he might and did have a number of p(a)laces without delay.

If it was your £15m, would you select Mayfair or Chobham? And both means, can Metro come to the housewarming?

Clarges Mayfair Condominium 4.03, £14.5m, wetherell.co.uk
n Chobham Park Property, £15m, knightfrank.co.uk

What you get for you cash

2,889 / 15,660

0.066 / 100

3 / 8+3*

4 / 6+8*

1 / 6+3*

75m / 17km

*within the outhouses

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