3 Carlton Gardens

Last updated

3 Carlton Gardens in May 2022 3 Carlton Gardens, St James's, May 2022 01.jpg
3 Carlton Gardens in May 2022

3 Carlton Gardens is a house in Carlton Gardens, cul-de-sac at the west end of Carlton House Terrace in London's St James's district SW1. The house was designed by Decimus Burton as part of a pair. It has been listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England since January 1970. [1]

The house is three storeys tall plus an attic storey; and four windows wide. A balustraded balcony is on the first floor. [1] The house has a swimming pool and spa, and private formal gardens. [2]

In 1843, it was residence to the politician Frederick Hodgson, MP for Barnstable. [3] In 1856 it was the home of the Conservative MP for Buteshire, James Stuart-Wortley. [4] The house was the residence of the Conservative politician and army officer George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester in the 1870s; Weld-Forester died at the property in 1886. [5] [6]

The house was used by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) to interview recruits after the Second World War. [2]

In 2012, the house was bought by the property developer Mike Spink for £65.5 million, who subsequently renovated the property. [2] The property was listed at £125 million for several years until its 2019 sale to the American hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel LLC, for £95 million. [2]

The 2019 sale of 3 Carlton Gardens was the most expensive sale of a UK property since 2011. [2]

Related Research Articles

Highgrove House is the family residence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. It lies southwest of Tetbury in Gloucestershire, England. Built in the late 18th century, Highgrove and its estate were owned by various families until it was purchased in 1980 by the Duchy of Cornwall from Maurice Macmillan. The Prince of Wales remodelled the Georgian house with neo-classical additions in 1987. The duchy manages the estate and the nearby Duchy Home Farm.

Carlton House Terrace Street in City of Westminster, United Kingdom

Carlton House Terrace is a street in the St James's district of the City of Westminster in London. Its principal architectural feature is a pair of terraces of white stucco-faced houses on the south side of the street overlooking St. James's Park. These terraces were built on Crown land between 1827 and 1832 to overall designs by John Nash, but with detailed input by other architects including Decimus Burton, who exclusively designed numbers 3 and 4.

Nether Lypiatt Manor

Nether Lypiatt Manor is a compact, neo-Classical manor house in the mainly rural parish of Thrupp, near Stroud in Gloucestershire. It was formerly the country home of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and is a Grade I listed building.

Eaton Square

Eaton Square is a rectangular, residential garden square in London's Belgravia district. It is the largest square in London. It is one of the three squares built by the landowning Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia in the 19th century that are named after places in Cheshire — in this case Eaton Hall, the Grosvenor country house. It is larger but less grand than the central feature of the district, Belgrave Square, and both larger and grander than Chester Square. The first block was laid out by Thomas Cubitt from 1827. In 2016 it was named as the "Most Expensive Place to Buy Property in Britain", with a full terraced house costing on average £17 million — many of such town houses have been converted, within the same, protected structures, into upmarket apartments.

Castle Bromwich Hall

Castle Bromwich Hall is a Jacobean mansion in the Castle Bromwich area of Birmingham, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

Raheen, Kew

Raheen is a heritage-listed Italianate mansion located at 94 Studley Park Road in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, Victoria, Australia. Built in the 1870s, its name means "little fort" in Irish. Listed on the Victorian Heritage Register on 14 July 1982, Raheen is owned by members of the Pratt family and is the principal Australian residence for Anthony Pratt.

George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester

George Cecil Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester PC, styled The Honourable George Weld-Forester between 1821 and 1874, was a British Conservative politician and army officer. He notably served as Comptroller of the Household in 1852 and from 1858 to 1859. A long-standing MP, he was Father of the House of Commons from 1873 to 1874, when he succeeded his elder brother in the barony and took a seat in the House of Lords.

Cadogan Place

Cadogan Place is a street in Belgravia, London. It is named after Earl Cadogan and runs parallel to the lower half of Sloane Street. It gives its name to the extensive Cadogan Place Gardens, private communal gardens maintained for Cadogan residents. It is owned by Cadogan Estates.

Windlestone Hall

Windlestone Hall is an early 19th-century country house, built around elements of an earlier 16th-century Elizabethan mansion, situated near Rushyford, County Durham, England. It is a Grade II* Listed building.

Poole Hall

Poole Hall is a Regency mansion at Poole, near Nantwich in Cheshire, England. It dates from 1812 to 1817 and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Nikolaus Pevsner considered the interior to be "exceptionally fine". The hall is a private residence and is not open to the public.

Rainham Hall Historic house museum in London, England

Rainham Hall is a Grade II* listed Georgian house, owned by the National Trust, in Rainham, in the London Borough of Havering. Built in 1729 for Captain John Harle, the house was transferred to the National Trust in 1949; let to a number of private tenants, it remained closed to the public until late 2015. Of note is that Rainham Hall recently appeared as a location in the 2019 BBC production A Christmas Carol.

Willey, Shropshire Human settlement in England

Willey is a small village south west of the town of Broseley, Shropshire, England, within the civil parish of Barrow. It is made up of about 4 farms and the majority of land is owned and leased by the Weld-Forester family of Willey Hall. Willey also sports a proud cricket team like many small villages around the United Kingdom.

Quernmore Park Hall is a grade II* listed Georgian country house which stands in a 20-acre estate in the village of Quernmore, part of the City of Lancaster district of England.

15 Cheyne Walk Grade II* listed house on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, built in 1718

15 Cheyne Walk is a Grade II* listed house on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, built in 1718. It was originally known as Carlton House. It is considered to be a replica of 4 Cheyne Walk.

The Pavilion, Hampton Court

The Pavilion is a house on Barge Walk in Hampton Court Park near Hampton Court Palace. It is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England. It is the sole survivor of four pavilions for the Bowling Green at Hampton Court.

<i>Salisbury Court</i> (Rose Bay)

Salisbury Court is a heritage-listed former apartment building, residence, homestead, kitchen garden and garden and now residence at 1-7 Salisbury Road, Rose Bay in the Municipality of Woollahra local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The original cottage was designed by John Verge and built from 1834 to 1915. It is also known as Rose Bay Lodge; Rose Bay Cottage. The property is privately owned. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Rose Bay Lodge contains the oldest surviving house in the Municipality of Woollahra.

Hillfield House Historic building in Gloucester, England

Hillfield House is a grade II listed house in Denmark Road, Gloucester, in England. The building, in the Italianate style popularised by Charles Barry, is faced in ashlar Bath stone, with a centrally placed tower and a porte-cochère entrance.

Wells House, Ilkley Historic building in West Yorkshire, England

Wells House is a large former hydropathic establishment and hotel in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England, now used as private apartments. It was built in 1854–56 to a design by the architect Cuthbert Brodrick and is a Grade II listed building. It is located above the town on Wells Road at the edge of Ilkley Moor, giving it an unobstructed view across Wharfedale from its north front. It was originally set in grounds by the landscaper Joshua Major though these gardens have mostly been built on since.

The Cedars is a large detached house in Sunninghill, Berkshire.

Walpole House

The Grade I listed building Walpole House is the largest, finest, and most complicated of the grand houses on Chiswick Mall, a waterfront street in the oldest part of Chiswick. Both the front wrought-iron screen and gate, and the back boundary wall, are Grade II listed.

References

  1. 1 2 Historic England, "3, Carlton Gardens (1066349)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 25 January 2018
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Rupert Neath (21 January 2019). "US hedge fund tycoon buys £95m house near Buckingham Palace". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  3. The Post Office London Directory. Kelly's Directories Limited. 1843. p. 968.
  4. The Catholic Directory, Ecclasiastical Register, and Almanac. 1856. p. 270.
  5. The Royal Kalendar, and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies. 1874. p. 89.
  6. The Complete Peerage, Volume V. St Catherine's Press. 1926. p. 553.

Coordinates: 51°30′20″N0°08′01″W / 51.50544°N 0.133525°W / 51.50544; -0.133525