Sloane House, Chelsea
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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".{{cite book|author1=Bridget Cherry|author2=Nikolaus Pevsner|title=London 3: North West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuvCfuvUy-0C|date=March 1991|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-09652-1|page=587}} It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since June 1954.{{NHLE|num=1266196|desc=Sloane House|access-date=8 March 2025}}
History
From 1845 to 1881 the house was a residence for "ladies suffering from the milder forms of mental disease".{{cite book | last=Hibbert | first=Christopher | last2=Weinreb | first2=Ben | title=The London Encyclopaedia | publisher=Pan Macmillan | publication-place=London | date=2008 | isbn=978-1-4050-4924-5 | page=}} It was the residence of Guy Granet and his wife from February 1924.{{cite news|title=Court Circular|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS252253780/TTDA?|accessdate=6 March 2024|work=The Times|issue=43580|date=20 February 1924|page=15}} In the late 1920s it was bought by Geoffrey Fry.{{cite book | last=Zinovieff | first=Sofka | title=The mad boy, Lord Berners, my grandmother and me | publisher=Vintage Books | publication-place=London | date=2016 | isbn=978-0-09-957196-4 | page=167}}{{cite news|title=Court Circular|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS286862053/TTDA?|accessdate=6 March 2024|work=The Times|issue=46798|date=5 July 1934|page=17}} A Mrs Hillgarth was resident in 1945.{{cite news|title=Court Circular|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS117784909/TTDA?|accessdate=6 March 2024|work=The Times|issue=50272|date=13 October 1945|page=7}} The historian John Ehrman was resident in the 1960s.{{cite news|title=Nuclear Weapons|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS220159819/TTDA?|accessdate=6 March 2025|work=The Times|issue=54899|date=11 October 1960|page=13}} Oil trader Ely Calil was resident for many years at Sloane House and sold it to Anthony Bamford in 2004 for £45 million.{{cite news|title=Obituary: Ely Calil|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/XBTEMT191846912/TTDA?|accessdate=6 March 2017|work=The Times|issue=72553|date=5 June 2025|page=53}}{{cite news|last=Steele|first=Francesca|title=Bigger is Better|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503969720/TTDA?|accessdate=6 March 2025|work=The Times|issue=69666|date=19 June 2009|page=137}} 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. It was put up for sale in 2009 for £79 million. Bamford's plans were opposed by the Chelsea Society who found "every aspect of the application objectionable".{{cite web|title=2008 annual report of the Chelsea Society|url=https://chelseasociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/2008-Annual-Report-1.pdf|archive-url=|work=2008 annual report of the Chelsea Society|publisher=Chelsea Society|accessdate=6 March 2025|archivedate=}} In 2010 it was bought by heiress Petra Ecclestone and her husband James Stunt for almost £60 million.{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Hilary|title=The billionaire's daughters: huge wealth, not enough happiness|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/NRVAKW362629716/TTDA?|accessdate=6 March 2025|work=The Times|issue=72265|date=3 July 2017|page=17}} The couple spent two years renovating the house with Casa Forma to create a residence of 25,000 sq ft. 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.{{cite news|last=Foxman|first=Ariel|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/an-exclusive-look-inside-petra-ecclestones-sprawling-london-estate|archive-url=|title=An Exclusive Look Inside Petra Ecclestone’s Sprawling London Estate|date=15 October 2021|work=Architectural Digest|accessdate=6 March 2025|archivedate=}} 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.{{cite news|title=Gang made Krays 'look like clowns'|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/YXMNLW294128764/TTDA?|accessdate=6 March 2025|work=The Times|issue=72269|date=7 July 2017|page=3}} Stunt was given two days to leave Sloane House at a court hearing in 2017 following his estrangement from Ecclestone. The house was the subject of a feature in Architectural Digest in 2021.