Listing of the Day
Location: South End, London
Price: £13.5 million (US$18.29 million)
While the nondescript exterior of this house on a dead-end street might suggest a modestly sized and ordinary residence, it possesses actual hidden depths with multiple subterranean levels that conceal a bevy of unique rooms and luxurious amenities.
Consequently, while the above ground levels are used as living quarters, the lower levels house recreational spaces fitted with such amenities as a swimming pool, a gym, and a private cinema. Reflecting the sense of surprise afforded by these hidden levels, the pool’s depth can be modulated with the press of a button and can even transform into a 40-person capacity dance floor.
Though listing agent Mark Sommerville of Hamptons International noted the lowest levels have "all the toys lots of millionaires like to have," the other levels provide the traditional spaces lots of families similarly enjoy.
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The ground level opens up to a 75-foot garden of artificial turf and manicured hedges surrounded by overhanging trees, while the master bedroom is warmed by chestnut paneling, and the contemporary kitchen provides "ample space for the Gordon Ramsays of the world," according to Mr. Sommerville.
Though Mr. Sommerville conceded the home’s unique upstairs-downstairs layout won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, he stressed the home’s desirable convergence of amenities and privacy allowing for a late night underground dance party.
Stats
Approximately 6,808 square-foot, the residence includes five bedrooms and six bathrooms spread across several floors.
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Amenities
A homeowner can catch a film in the cinema room, go for a swim in the modulating swimming pool, work out in their own gym, relax in a private sauna and Jacuzzi, store valuables in a secluded safe, keep wine bottles in a 1,500-capacity wine cellar, park cars in an integrated garage with fingerprint technology and access each floor via an elevator.
The home’s cinema doubles as a safe room. During lockdown, it has access to both a vault and storeroom during a potential worst-case scenario.
Agent: Mark Sommerville, Hamptons International