Sloane House, Chelsea

Sloane House, Chelsea
General information
Address	149 Old Church Street, Chelsea, London, UK
Coordinates	51°29′17″N0°10′30″W / 51.48816°N 0.17490°W / 51.48816; -0.17490
Designations	Grade II listed

Sloane House at 149 Old Church Street is a late 18th-century house in Chelsea, London.

The 1991 London: North West edition 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 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 sq ft. ^[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 sq ft. ^[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 (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. 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. 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. 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.