Sloane House, Chelsea

Sloane House at 149 Old Church Street is a late 18th-century house in Chelsea, London.

Sloane House, Chelsea
General information
Address	149 Old Church Street, Chelsea, London, UK
Coordinates	51°29′17″N 0°10′30″W
Designations	Grade II listed

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".^[1] It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since June 1954.^[2]

History

From 1845 to 1881 the house was a residence for "ladies suffering from the milder forms of mental disease".^[3] It was the residence of Guy Granet and his wife from February 1924.^[4] In the late 1920s it was bought by Geoffrey Fry.^[5][6] A Mrs Hillgarth was resident in 1945.^[7] The historian John Ehrman was resident in the 1960s.^[8] Oil trader Ely Calil was resident for many years at Sloane House and sold it to Anthony Bamford in 2004 for £45 million.^[9][10] 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.^[10] It was put up for sale in 2009 for £79 million.^[10] Bamford's plans were opposed by the Chelsea Society who found "every aspect of the application objectionable".^[11] In 2010 it was bought by heiress Petra Ecclestone and her husband James Stunt for almost £60 million.^[12] The couple spent two years renovating the house with Casa Forma to create a residence of 25,000 sq ft.^[12] 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.^[13] 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.^[14] Stunt was given two days to leave Sloane House at a court hearing in 2017 following his estrangement from Ecclestone.^[12] The house was the subject of a feature in Architectural Digest in 2021.^[13]