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A luxury home inside the US embassy complex has gone on sale for £2.5m.
The property is said to be the most “protected home in Britain” and any visitor is asked to carry an identity card at all times. The complex has patrolling US marines, a 24-hour British police presence, checkpoints, anti-tanks blocks and CCTV.
But potential buyers looking for a fortress should not get their hopes up as all the security will disappear once the US embassy moves to a new site in Nine Elms in 2017.
Show all 13 1 /13Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White House - Living Room The Little White House at 4 Blackburne’s Mews provides 2,773 sqft of living space over lower ground, ground, first and second floors and benefits from an integral garage and access to communal gardens.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White House Just like a scaled-down version of the Washington White House, the Mayfair property has a grand entrance hall with sweeping staircase leading up to a large double reception room on the first floor which provides great entertaining space and fantastic natural light.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White House Currently, the Little White House sits inside the American Embassy’s security cordon that includes identity card access, patrolling US marines, 24 hour British police presence, checkpoints, anti-tank blocks and CCTV security.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White House - Kitchen There is a ground floor formal dining room, with doors opening onto the communal garden, and a large family kitchen/breakfast room.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White House - Bedroom The remainder of the accommodation provides four bedroom suites, each with fitted wardrobes and ensuite bath/shower rooms, guest cloakroom and utility/storage room.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White House - Staircase The property is known locally as the Little White House due to its white façade; grand 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue style entrance hall and sweeping staircase.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White Holuse - Bedroom It comes with luxurious bedrooms fit for a president.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White Holuse - Entrace Perhaps not quite as grand an entrance as it’s bigger brother in Washington, DC.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White Holuse - Entrace Running north-south, Blackburne’s Mews is accessed from Upper Grosvenor Street and Upper Brook Street, with Culcross Street forming a subsidiary arm of the thoroughfare. The mews is located directly adjacent to the rear of the American Embassy whose front façade overlooks Grosvenor Square.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Little White House - Communal Garden The complex will come with an array of security features until 2017 when the US Embassy moves to Nine Elms.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m US embassy The close relationship between the Little White House and the American Embassy started in 1785 when the first ever American diplomatic mission (the American Envoy) was founded by John Adams (later President of the United States), who rented a house on adjacent Grosvenor Square. In 1811 the mission was raised to Minister & Charge d’Affaires status and in 1893 the first US Ambassador was appointed.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Reconverted US embassy Wetherell reveal that the Grade II Embassy will be transformed into a 5* hotel and luxury resort. The new luxury complex will provide 137 bedrooms and suites, ballroom, health spa, five restaurants/bars and six retail boutiques, with new public entrances fronting onto Grosvenor Square and Blackburne’s Mews.
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Mayfair 'mini White House' mansion on sale for £2.5m Reconverted US embassy Peter Wetherell, Chief Executive of Wetherell says: The resort’s restaurants, bars, health spa and boutiques will be one of the ‘must visit’ destinations in Mayfair, and the urban renewal programme has the potential to give huge uplift to property values in the local area.”
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The current embassy building has been sold to Qatari Diar – the property development arm of the Qatari royal family – for an estimated £600m. It is being refurbished as a five star luxury hotel said to become “London’s next Claridges” with 137 bedrooms, a spa and a ballroom for 1,000 guests. The £2.5m “Little W hite House” is located next door.
The home, located at 4 Blackburne’s Mews near Grosvenor Square, dates back to 1732 and owes its nickname to its white façade, grand entrance and sweeping staircase as well as its proximity to the US embassy. It provides nearly 3,000 sq ft of living space and benefits from access to communal gardens.
The close relationship between the “ Little White House” and the American Embassy started in 1785 when the first ever American diplomatic mission was founded by John Adams, later US president, who rented a house on adjacent Grosvenor Square.
Local residents were allowed to use its library and were invited to regular embassy jazz concerts before the property was incorporated into the US embassy perimeter and security was dramatically increased following 9/11.
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Outrageous property deals in pictures ‘Little White House’ inside the US embassy complex in London goes on sale for £2.5m A luxury home inside the US embassy complex has gone on sale for £2.5m. The property is said to be the most “protected home in Britain” and any visitor is asked to carry an identity card at all times. The complex has patrolling US marines, a 24-hour British police presence, checkpoints, anti-tanks blocks and CCTV.But potential buyers looking for a fortress should not get their hopes up as all the security will disappear once the US embassy moves to a new site in Nine Elms in 2017. The home, located at 4 Blackburne’s Mews near Grosvenor Square, dates back to 1732 and owes its nickname to its white façade, grand entrance and sweeping staircase as well as its proximity to the US embassy. It provides nearly 3,000 sq ft of living space and benefits from access to communal gardens.
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Peter Wetherell, chief executive of Mayfair estate agent Wetherell, said the property is a long term investment as residential values in the area are set to rise in the next five years.
“For Grosvenor Square the next five years will be the most significant in its 270 year history. With the security cordon gone in 2017, and the Embassy replaced by a new luxury hotel with large public realms, residential values in the locale could rise easily by an additional 10 per cent above the overall Mayfair value increases we have been seeing over the decades,” said Mr Wetherell.
The US embassy in Grosvenor Square has served as its diplomatic mission in Britain since 1960 and was at the centre of an anti-Vietnam war demonstration in 1968.
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