Studio that used to belong to 80s pop icons hits the market for £6,000,000

Nestled betwixt Old Street and Clerkenwell, you’ll find an unassuming erstwhile warehouse tucked down a walled courtyard.

And yet, arsenic with galore places successful London, there’s a hidden history present that doesn’t instantly uncover itself.

After they recovered fame successful the 1980s, popstars The Pet Shop Boys acceptable up their signaling workplace present successful White Lion Court connected Garrett Street – and present it’s for merchantability to the tune of £6,000,000.

At 4,400 quadrate feet, aft Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe decided to merchantability up it was converted into a location by designer Charles Tashima, and present boasts 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.

Much of the redesign intentionally focused connected the property’s archetypal Victorian features, including the efforts to exposure the archetypal brickwork, extortion trusses and precocious timber beams.

And, contempt the information that it’s nary longer utilized arsenic a studio, it’s inactive soundproof – truthful if you privation to indulge successful a late-night movie marathon oregon simply privation to blast The Pet Shop Boys’ champion hits arsenic the gathering intended, you won’t beryllium disturbing the neighbours.

The open-plan reception country is nary uncertainty the centrepiece of the listing, featuring a whopping 17 metres of timber beams that look retired onto a south-facing extortion terrace.

There’s thing present not conscionable for the euphony fans, but for the aviation lovers too. Throughout the building, there’s fossil limestone flooring that was retrieved during the renovation of Heathrow’s celebrated Terminal 2.

Naturally, erstwhile Redditors successful the SpottedonRightmove thread recovered the listing online, the comments were live with puns.

‘I retrieve seeing this before. Really liked it. You mightiness adjacent accidental it was ever connected my mind,’ @Glass_Box_6291 joked. ‘I’ll amusement myself out.’

‘That’s lovely, shame astir the determination though. Would similar to spell west,’ @Visual-Economist5479 added, referencing some the iconic 1986 azygous West End Girls and 1993’s Go West.

And determination was an evident jibe made by @yalkeryli, who simply wrote: ‘Thought it would beryllium to rent.’

Meanwhile, others reflected connected what the country was similar astatine the time.

‘I lived conscionable astir the country from determination successful the aboriginal 90s…Clerkenwell was not chill backmost then,’ @strolls reminisced. ‘I lived successful a squat successful an aged pub, and it was precise quiescent astatine weekends. But it was truthful convenient for the westbound extremity and city.’

This isn’t the lone spot antecedently owned by 1 of the stars to deed the market. Earlier this month, Peter Cushing’s erstwhile household location went up for merchantability successful Croydon to the tune of £995,000.

Peter is champion known for his relation arsenic Grand Moff Tarkin successful Star Wars, for which helium was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. To this day, his representation is commemorated with a bluish plaque astatine St James’ Road successful Purley, wherever helium grew up.

Peter, who famously appeared successful much than 100 films including The Revenge of Frankenstein, The Hound of the Baskervilles and Dracula, lived astatine the code betwixt 1925 and 1936, erstwhile helium attended Purley County Secondary School.

Likewise, successful September Boy George’s five-bedroom Hampstead location went up for rent for £65,000 per month.

Having bought it 40 years agone aft Culture Club archetypal changeable to the apical of the charts, the vocalist is present looking for a tenant for the property. It was primitively enactment connected the marketplace £17,000,000 successful November 2022, and helium remains blessed ‘whether we merchantability oregon whether we rent.’

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