Rare untouched London trophy home selling for $65 million

One of the last untouched trophy mansions located in London’s prestigious Knightsbridge is selling for £35 million ($65 million).

Tucked in behind the iconic Sloane Street and within walking distance of Harrods and Harvey Nichols, this six-storey Queen Anne-style red brick house is a rare offering as far as London real estate goes — and not just because it sits on Cadogan Square, one of London’s most prestigious addresses, and has historic links to the Stuart monarchy.

While the majority of its impressive-looking neighbouring properties have long had their interiors carved up into apartments, Stuart House, as it’s known, has been kept as a single residence since it was built in the early 1880s.

It is, according to the real estate listing on Rokstone Properties, the largest single property currently for sale in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

Marketing agent Becky Fatemi told the Evening Standard it would be considered a “collector’s item” by well-heeled house hunters.

“Complete townhouses are … comparable to very rare fine art… I expect a family, art enthusiast or a collector of trophy homes to buy this home.”

Inside, the house resembles something from every stunning English period film you’ve ever seen: soaring ceilings, ornate stone and plaster moulding, grand, sweeping staircases and oversized windows.

Built in 1884, and Grade II-listed, the house has five reception rooms spread over two levels, a study, a teenage retreat at the top of the house, and five bedrooms, as well as staff quarters.

The basement level has been designed as a wellness retreat and features a swimming pool and a gym.

The Grade II-listed property was designed in 1880 by architect FG Knight for Oscar Leslie Stephen, a director of the Great Northern Railway, and completed in 1884 on the Cadogan family estate. The property reportedly has ancestral ties to Princess Diana, the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sussex.

Becky Fatimi at Rokstone and Alex Christian and Richard Gutteridge at Savills have the listing.