Property of the Week: Poet and critic Ezra Pound’s house in Kensington has doubled in price in three years
A few times a week, a crowd of tourists gather outside this house on Kensington Church Walk to have their pictures taken with the English Heritage blue plaque outside.
Set in a quiet cobbled courtyard, this Victorian townhouse was the home of ex-pat American poet and critic Ezra Pound between 1909 and 1914 and it was where he worked on many of his most famous works, including his Ripostes.
The literary enthusiasts never seemed to bother its modern inhabitant though, a lady that had lived in this residential street off High Street Kensington for 34 years before deciding to move to the country. She sold it for just over £2m to a private property developer around three years ago and since it’s more than doubled in price, as it's now on the market for £4.3m.
The modern entrance to the newly renovated house
This is down to an extensive renovation by Ken Teogh’s team at Redfield Capital, who specialise in prime central London, but have also developed properties in Monaco and Kuala Lumpur.
The biggest project was extending onto the roof to create a third double bedroom and getting designers at De Menagerie to create a bespoke kitchen on the ground floor. “We opened up the whole living room so we had to make the kitchen a feature.,” says Teogh. Most of the work was done in-house by Redfield and completed within eight months.
Thanks to its rare blue plaque, this house has racked up more Pound signs than it intended.
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