Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson's former City home on sale for £6m

Over the past 200 years this warehouse successful the City of London has lived galore lives. Originally a wagon repair shop, it was aboriginal a sawmill, and past converted into a signaling workplace utilized by the Pet Shop Boys.

In the 1980s it was converted into a location – erstwhile residents person included an Oscar-winning movie manager and a personage creator and movie maker.

The house, tucked into an alleyway conscionable Cornhill, is hidden successful plain show adjacent to immoderate of the City’s biggest fiscal institutions including the Bank of England.

Its archetypal wagon doors pb done to an interior courtyard, and past connected to the 3 chamber house, which besides has a study, a gym, and a extortion terrace.

“It is very, very, precise private,” said  Corey Hemingway, caput of premier income astatine The Modern House. “Nobody knows it is determination due to the fact that it is hidden down a 13ft ceramic partition and utterly secluded. But you measurement retired of the beforehand door, and you are close successful the heavy of it.”

The gathering was erstwhile utilized by Whitbread Brewery, wherever it was utilized arsenic a store to repair the horse-drawn wagons utilized to administer its brew to London’s pubs. It was besides utilized arsenic a blacksmiths’, stables, a fodder store, and aboriginal a sawmill.

After the gathering was converted into a location 1 of its archetypal owners was Sam Taylor-Johnson, the Turner Prize-nominated creator turned movie maker. She is simply a agelong clip collaborator with the Pet Shop Boys, producing their videos, singing connected 2 of their tracks, and producing others. She rented the location to the set truthful that they could marque usage of its ground-floor signaling studio.

After Taylor-Johnson, who is present joined to histrion Aaron Taylor-Johnson, moved successful the location was sold to the movie manager Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Cyrano) and his wife, the instrumentalist and sitar subordinate Anoushka Shankar, whose enactment has been nominated for six Grammy awards.

During their tenure the couple, who person 2 sons and are present divorced, called successful the London-based designer Charles Tashima, manager of Studio Tashima, to upgrade the spot whilst preserving arsenic overmuch of its historical quality arsenic possible. This meant exposing the archetypal brickwork, extortion trusses, and monolithic timber beams which tally crossed the 56-ft surviving room.

Tashima added immoderate idiosyncratic touches too, including reclaimed timber panelling, patterned Moroccan tiles, and sections of fossil limestone flooring salvaged during the renovation of London Heathrow’s Terminal 2.

The existent owners – a tech entrepreneur and a steadfast - bought the spot successful 2019 arsenic a unrecorded enactment space, with bureau abstraction connected the crushed floor.

They added their ain touches to the property, including the heavy orangish rubber floors successful the main hallway, and a customised kitchen. The soundproofed signaling workplace is present utilized arsenic a gym.

The spot has been enactment connected the marketplace due to the fact that its owners privation to determination to the country.