With Londoners dwelling in skips and a balcony promoting for £35,000 in Knightsbridge, you possibly can argue that the quirkier, the higher relating to shopping for property in 2024.
Emerald Fennell’s gritty darkish comedy Saltburn has left an eternal impression on its viewers, who’ve since flooded TikTok with a dance pattern that sees them parading via their very own houses to Sophie Ellis Bextor’s ‘Homicide On The Dancefloor’.
Dancing apart, the movie has additionally make clear the great thing about Britain’s oldest properties. With its stained glass home windows, Gothic structure and air of grandeur, dwelling in a property as opulent as Saltburn, AKA Drayton Home in actual life, was as soon as reserved for aristocrats and royalty. Till The Chapel at St Gabriel’s Manor got here in the marketplace, that’s.
An inventory from the Distinctive Property Firm on Rightmove particulars a singular transformed chapel in London’s Camberwell. With 5 bedrooms, two loos, and an unrivalled quantity of character, this beautiful residence was previously a chapel that had been supposed for residences by builders.
But its inside designer proprietor, Peggy Prendeville, managed to maintain the historic house away from the clutches of city planners and as an alternative remodel it into one in every of London’s most opulent chapel conversions.
At current, this Grade-II* listed residence will set consumers again simply shy of £3 million at £2,950,000. Have a look inside…
Peggy has stored as a lot of the unique attraction of the previous chapel as potential.
With beautiful stained-glass home windows, a stable spiral stairwell and remembrance-clad partitions, this distinctive residence is just not your common London property.
She was looking out for a singular and great renovation mission when she got here throughout the beautiful Cormont Highway chapel. “I knew it was the place for me,” she advised HELLO!.
“I shook the proprietor’s hand after I advised him I needed it and he honoured that, regardless of having affords at greater costs.”
Earlier than she moved into the historic residence, Peggy had requested to see the chapel when it was darkish outdoors to see how the electrical energy and lighting had been handled.
“It was mid summer season, so it was gentle till about 10.30pm. Once I went again late one evening to view the chapel, the seller had crammed the place with candles which proved that there actually wasn’t a lot electrical lighting within the place!”
With an unlimited renovation mission on her palms, Peggy had simply three primary objectives for the property – all of which required meticulous planning permission.
“I added a doorway to what was then a parking lot, which I’ve become a backyard,” she mentioned. Second, a mezzanine degree above the altar was needed to present an additional room house.
“I managed to do that with out interfering with the great thing about the stained glass home windows by making the mezzanine glass with no handrail so successfully it was clear,” she defined.
Peggy additionally selected so as to add rooms to the tip of the chapel away from the altar, giving her bedrooms and loos for her household in addition to a workspace.
