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Buy of the week: Putney Hill, SW15
This glossy new apartment just off Putney Hill has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus a bright open-plan reception space with floor-to-ceiling windows and spectacular skyline views.
Out of town: Wigginton, Oxfordshire
This three-bedroom Grade II-listed thatch in the pretty village of Wigginton, near Banbury, is a tempting package of beams, wood burners and cottage gardens.
Life-changer: Tiverton, Devon
A five-bedroom house set in a valley at Cheriton Fitzpaine, Tiverton, surrounded by farmland and sweeping gardens, with B&B potential and a garage block ripe for conversion.
East Grinstead spotlight
East Grinstead in West Sussex is 30 miles south of the capital in the High Weald. The town's exclusive gated estates attract celebrity home buyers such as Tom Cruise, while London families are drawn to the area's good mix of period homes and modern flats.-
Buy of the week: Putney Hill, SW15
This glossy new apartment just off Putney Hill has two bedrooms and two bathrooms, plus a bright open-plan reception space with floor-to-ceiling windows and spectacular skyline views. -
Out of town: Wigginton, Oxfordshire
This three-bedroom Grade II-listed thatch in the pretty village of Wigginton, near Banbury, is a tempting package of beams, wood burners and cottage gardens. -
Life-changer: Tiverton, Devon
A five-bedroom house set in a valley at Cheriton Fitzpaine, Tiverton, surrounded by farmland and sweeping gardens, with B&B potential and a garage block ripe for conversion.
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Homes gossip: Duffy; Robbie Williams; Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra
By Amira Hashish
Duffy
A Wiltshire retreat for Duffy and her clutch of Brits
After a fire forced her to flee her £12 million Kensington penthouse this month, pop star Duffy, winner of a cluster of Brit awards, may be interested to know that a beautiful barn conversion she once lived in is back on the rental market.
The Warwick Avenue singer-songwriter shared the four-bedroom retreat with her on/off rugby player boyfriend Mike Phillips.
Surrounded by farmland, it is located in the lovely village of Dauntsey in Wiltshire. Listed with Hamptons International (homesandproperty.co.uk/duffy) for £381 a week (£1,650 a month), it could provide a safe haven for the Welsh star and those Brits.
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Robbie Williams
Snap a penthouse fit for the royals and Robbie
A magnificent penthouse is for sale overlooking Chelsea Pier, where the Queen and Prince Philip embarked for the Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant in June.
The three-bedroom flat is part of the exclusive Chelsea Harbour development, where Jubilee concert star Robbie Williams bought a £2.5 million penthouse in 2003 because his Notting Hill bachelor pad was no longer big enough. Other residents include Sir Michael Caine, Richard Burton’s widow, Sally, and playwright Tom Stoppard. Jackson-Stops & Staff seeks £3.95 million (homesandproperty.co.uk/chelseapenthouse).
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Marilyn Monroe
Picture yourself in a Brat Pack pad
Marilyn Monroe fans should be on red alert. A West Hollywood home with A-list credentials is for sale. The triplex, listed for £2.96 million, was home to Monroe and Frank Sinatra. The icons lived in the four-bedroom gated complex at the same time in 1961, though the Brat Pack crooner was more of a fleeting visitor.
Turkish designer Kalef Alaton bought the estate in the Eighties, giving it a gorgeous makeover. And it has stood the test of time with floor-to-ceiling glass doors and a glamorous 100ft-long living room. It’s the business.
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£750,000: a two-bedroom home, Wotton-under-Edge
Cotswolds retreat is a feast for the eyes
Cosy up for winter in front of a Cotswolds fire in a small banqueting house. The Grade II-listed home sits on an escarpment with spectacular views over an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Built in about 1770 by Matthew Hale, great-great-grandson of King Charles II’s Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale, the 2.1-acre retreat at Alderley, Wotton-under-Edge has two bedrooms and a lovely triple-aspect living room.
On the market with Knight Frank for £750,000 (homesandproperty.co.uk/summerhouse), there are frequent train services to London Paddington from nearby Kemble station. A charming bolthole to get away from it all.
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