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Post by pg on Jul 20, 2023 13:21:10 GMT
Without getting into much personal information (in some eyes I may have already crossed it), Brian's reported purchase of a property in Surrey made me wonder if it was funded by the sale of the Kensington house, and it appears that he did indeed sell it last year.
I'm assuming he's sold the Windlesham fire risk as well, otherwise he'd have two Surrey estates, which seems more than enough for anyone!
Slightly randomly, a property on the same street in Kensington was also recently for sale, and the photos included a couple of guitars and a Barcelona box set - I assume this is a conicidence.
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Post by pg on Jul 20, 2023 13:34:40 GMT
Unsurprisingly, the first thing the new owners in Kensington want to do is extend the lower ground floor. Do we think Brian put a covenant in the deeds to prevent additional digging out?
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jul 20, 2023 16:48:17 GMT
We can obviously only speculate, but as you say, I doubt he'd want two Surrey estates. One of his previous homes was a fire risk, and wasn't it the Kensington pad that got flooded not so long ago? I'd guess he was perhaps glad to get shot of both of them, and hopefully he'll have better luck with this one. Presumably he's got room for a studio and all the old Queen tapes in the new house! Does seem a big place for just the two of them though.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jul 20, 2023 16:49:53 GMT
Unsurprisingly, the first thing the new owners in Kensington want to do is extend the lower ground floor. Do we think Brian put a covenant in the deeds to prevent additional digging out? Given it's reported history of flooding, I'm not sure that would be such a great idea. 🤔 |
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Post by pg on Jul 20, 2023 16:55:17 GMT
Unsurprisingly, the first thing the new owners in Kensington want to do is extend the lower ground floor. Do we think Brian put a covenant in the deeds to prevent additional digging out? Given it's reported history of flooding, I'm not sure that would be such a great idea. 🤔 Maybe they'll embed flood protection in the design? (It's about a 2m horizontal extension to the back of the lower ground and ground floors, from looking at the plan) |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jul 20, 2023 17:02:56 GMT
Given it's reported history of flooding, I'm not sure that would be such a great idea. 🤔 Maybe they'll embed flood protection in the design? (It's about a 2m horizontal extension to the back of the lower ground and ground floors, from looking at the plan) Hardly seems worth it. That's about the size of my small bathroom! Then again, I guess that might be the intended use. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jul 20, 2023 17:06:18 GMT
As a curiosity, I wonder what sort of fixtures and fittings a removed home studio and recordings 'vault' would leave behind? I assume he would have had something of that nature set up in the London pad.
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Post by pg on Jul 20, 2023 23:07:02 GMT
Maybe they'll embed flood protection in the design? (It's about a 2m horizontal extension to the back of the lower ground and ground floors, from looking at the plan) Hardly seems worth it. That's about the size of my small bathroom! Then again, I guess that might be the intended use. I make that somewhere around 40 square metres. How big is (are?) your large bathrooms? As a curiosity, I wonder what sort of fixtures and fittings a removed home studio and recordings 'vault' would leave behind? I assume he would have had something of that nature set up in the London pad. The attic is described as "studio" in the current plan, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it was used for that purpose. I doubt he did much recording at home - more likely noodling. I think I recall that he didn't have his guitar with him in the first lockdown, so was playing one of the replicas he'd been sent to sign. I suspect the studio was installed at Windlesham, but have no evidence to back that up. If there was a studio installed in Kensington, there'd be a disproportionate number of plug sockets, probably a three phase electric supply, and potentially some soundproofing left on the walls (my guess). The actual tapes will be (should surely be) in some professional facility - I think Iron Mountain provide that kind of service. Any reference to "tapes" by this point really should mean "hard drives" and even that should be backed up to some sort of cloud, whether corporate or private. |
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Post by vh on Jul 21, 2023 8:59:55 GMT
Hardly seems worth it. That's about the size of my small bathroom! Then again, I guess that might be the intended use. I make that somewhere around 40 square metres. How big is (are?) your large bathrooms? . I suspect the studio was installed at Windlesham, but have no evidence to back that up. . . .. Yes that is where his studio is, there is evidence to back this up, the studio is name checked in album credits and the house has been mentioned in interviews with both Brian and Pete Melerdrone. |
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Post by dragonkiller on Jul 21, 2023 17:12:25 GMT
To be fair we cannot take anything with us when we die, I know if I had the sort of money to afford a house like this that I can retire to in my later days, the estate agents will be getting a visit.
May the Gods of the EURO lottery shine down.
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Post by daul on Jan 26, 2024 13:37:46 GMT
He had two houses in Kensington, next to each other, that I knew of.
It looks like he sold one of them in Summer '22.
The other one doesn't seem to have been sold yet.
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