Frognal Rise House, which once housed Royal Academy artist Angela Latham and her MI5 husband, has hit the market at a staggering £11million.
Images show the history behind the grade II listed building, located in Lower Terrace, Hampstead, NW3, as it goes up for sale for the first time since 1937.
The Grade II listed 6,340 sq. ft. three-storey home has seven bedrooms and conserved period interiors.
Whilst the home is dated and will require renovation it has sprawling open spaces, a stunning garden and has Angela Latham’s exquisite original murals, in the Art Nouveau style, in the hallways.
Many period features are still in situ, including wooden floorboards and panelled doors, picture rails and skirting boards.
Angela bought the home with her husband, Professor Peter M. S. Latham, Gresham Professor in Music, in 1937.
Many period features of the Hampstead £million home are still in situ, including wooden floorboards and panelled doors, picture rails and skirting boards
The Grade II listed 6,340 sq. ft. three-storey home has seven bedrooms and conserved period interiors
Images show the history behind the grade II listed building, as it goes up for sale for the first time since 1937. Pictured: Angela Latham’s murals
Whilst the home is dated and will require renovation it has sprawling open spaces, a stunning garden and has Angela Latham’s exquisite original murals, in the Art Nouveau style, in the hallways (pictured)
Between 1938 and 1939, Angela, whose oeuvre was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, adorned the hallway, stairwell and several other spaces on the first floor, including one of the four bathrooms, with murals depicting abundant nature and scenes from ancient Indian epic poems, with family members used as models.
Although unlisted, they provide an intriguing vignette into Frognal Rise House’s fascinating past.
The grand house is on a slightly elevated site and has a characterful warm-red brick wall and wraparound and there are also gardens which are filled with fruit trees.
The Georgian home features four large reception spaces plus a study, high ceilings and is full of natural light.
The lower ground floor of the house is a a self-contained apartment with its own entrance. It also contains a wine room and spaces which could be used to build a gym or cinema room.
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Angela largely stopped painting, to concentrate on the war effort.
Both she and her husband Peter, who taught at the Royal Academy and Guildhall Schools of Music and later worked for MI5, were both Air Raid Precautions wardens, with the house also used as a War Funds Comfort Association depot.
Here, utilising both the home’s cavernous lower ground level and garage, supplies were stockpiled until they could be distributed to the Armed Forces and to those left homeless by the Blitz – with the aristocratic Glenconner family, who lived round the corner at Hampstead’s famous Admiral’s House, storing what she could not.
Sea-boot stockings sent to Angela by the Tibetan Army, made of oily, unwashed waterproof yaks’ wool, proved to be lifesavers for servicemen torpedoed in the Atlantic.
Frognal Rise House, which once housed Royal Academy artist Angela Latham and her MI5 husband, has hit the market at a staggering £11million. Pictured: The exterior of the property
The grand house is on a slightly elevated site and has a characterful brick wall and wraparound and there are also gardens which are filled with fruit trees
The dated bathroom in the Georgian period property, which is on the market for £million
The property has an exquisite arch entryway with a grand wooden door sat at the bottom of it
Angela bought the home with her husband, Professor Peter M. S. Latham, Gresham Professor in Music, in 1937
An old image of the property, showing the exterior was once covered in foliage
The Georgian home features four large reception spaces plus a study, high ceilings and is full of natural light
The Lathams entertained many well-known literary and musical names of their day here, including English novelist Winston Graham, who wrote the classic Cornish bodice-ripping Poldark series, and later passed the home to their daughter, Professor Margaret Valentine Korah.
A trailblazer as the first female law professor at UCL, who sadly died earlier this year, Korah had four children, who are now living across various parts of the UK.
The house also has a detached private garage with a roof garden above, which has enough space to park four small cars or two large cars.
The listing for the home, which is on sale via Aston Chase and Savills, said: ‘Today, the home’s close neighbours number billionaires, celebrated filmmakers, sports moguls and luxury fashion tastemakers, drawn to the network of verdant, semi-rural lanes that radiate out from Hampstead Village, the Heath and its ancient woodland, while still just five miles from central London.
‘Frognal Rise House retains what is probably today a completely unique historic charm for the area, coupled with incredible possibilities for a bespoke refurbishment.
A dated living room with floral furniture in the Georgian home
An old black and white picture shows the house many years ago
An original bathroom with murals on the wall and teal tiles
An old picture shows a child playing in the garden of the home
The £million home is in need of an update to bring it into the 21st century. Pictured: Dark woodwork in the house
The dumbwaiter (pictured) is still in the property
One of the home’s vintage bathrooms along with a large window
Angela’s artwork provides an intriguing vignette into Frognal Rise House’s fascinating past
The house also has a detached private garage with a roof garden above, which has enough space to park four small cars or two large cars. Pictured: A bird’s eye view of the property
‘The exterior is instantly enticing. Ostensibly Georgian in character, studded with rows of sash windows, the home was extended by a further wing in the late Victorian era, in 1884, by Marshall N Inman, a noted architect and surveyor of his day.
‘Historic England suggests Inman was once again called on in 1900 to modernise and extend the home, this time showcasing the exquisite detailing of Art Nouveau architectural and decorative style.
‘Into a façade of yellow London stock brick beneath a slated hipped roof, a grand new stone-faced entranceway to Frognal Rise House was created, off Lower Terrace, with segmental arch and hoodmould, and the pièce de résistance above the oversized wooden door a wonderful carving of foliage and nesting birds.
‘Step over the impressive threshold, and you’ll find interiors that have been well maintained, but largely decoratively unchanged since the 1930s.’
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