A seven-bedroom mansion on one of Hampstead’s most star-studded streets has come to the market with an asking price of almost £13 million.
The detached, double-fronted house on Redington Road is being marketed by estate agent TK International as an “ambassadorial residence”, with 7,600 sq ft of living space set behind a sweeping gated carriage drive.
The fully refurbished property is arranged over several floors. A reception hall leads into a 45ft open-plan reception and family room with a custom-built kitchen, while elsewhere there is a 28ft dining room and a panelled study.
Four of the seven bedrooms are on the first floor, including the principal suite with its dressing room and en-suite bathroom, and three further bedrooms also have en-suite bathrooms. Two more bedrooms on the second floor share a bathroom, alongside a family and games room with a double-vaulted ceiling and terrace. A spiral staircase climbs to a loft room, and on the lower level there is a utility room and staff accommodation, with basement staff quarters also included in the listing.
Outside, the house sits just 100 metres from the expanses of Hampstead Heath, with its own private green space in the form of a west-facing garden of around 136ft. There is also a garage with space for several cars.
It is the sheer scale and formality of the house that earns it the “ambassadorial” billing: the gated carriage drive, 7,600 sq ft of accommodation, dedicated staff quarters and a run of grand entertaining rooms, from the 45ft reception room to the 28ft dining room and the panelled study — the kind of layout built for large-scale entertaining.
Redington Road itself is a wide, tree-lined street in the Hampstead Conservation Area that curves towards the Heath, lined with some of the grandest and most expensive detached period villas in London. The first houses date to the 1870s, with development expanding rapidly through the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods.
Its celebrity credentials are long established. Past and present residents of the street include the former Arsenal and France striker Thierry Henry, the film director Tim Burton and the actor Tom Conti.
Perhaps the most famous house on the road is The Wabe, built in 1903 by the mathematician William Garnett in an eclectic mix of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Scottish Baronial styles. Its name is taken from Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, and in the years before the First World War its owners — the industrialist Harold Ellis and his wife, the Canadian explorer Mina Hubbard — entertained guests ranging from Emmeline Pankhurst and Isadora Duncan to George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells.
Tom Conti and his wife Kara Wilson bought The Wabe in 1985, welcoming guests including Arthur Miller and David Bowie, before selling it to Burton for £11 million in 2018.
Henry, meanwhile, courted controversy in 2012 when he applied for permission to demolish his £5.6 million mansion on the road and replace it with a larger house complete with a giant fish tank. Other famous residents of the street have included the late Shirley Valentine star Pauline Collins and her husband John Alderton.
The £13 million listing lands as London’s prime property market shows signs of cooling. London house prices have fallen 3.3 per cent, with five prime boroughs recording drops of more than 10 per cent, in figures recently reported by London Streets — a softer backdrop that may help explain why the Redington Road house, which has been on the market for some time, has yet to find a buyer.
It also comes amid a continuing debate over the taxation of high-value homes, with ministers reported to be considering lowering a mansion tax threshold to £1.5 million — a move that would bring a far wider pool of London homes into scope, let alone a £13 million Hampstead mansion.
