Cornwall Gardens

The conventional Prime Central London purchase asks a buyer to choose one apartment, one floor or one grand house. This Cornwall Gardens property proposes a different kind of control: an entire freehold residential building, comprehensively rebuilt and arranged as six self-contained apartments.

Offered at £45 million, the building extends to more than 11,900 square feet in South Kensington. Its restored stucco façade preserves the visual authority of the Victorian terrace, including cornicing, shutters and full-height sash windows. Behind it, the internal plan and infrastructure have been renewed for contemporary ownership rather than preserved as a period exercise.

The configuration is unusually legible. A duplex occupies the fifth and sixth floors and opens to a substantial roof terrace. Four lateral apartments take one floor each from the first through fourth levels. A sixth residence spans the lower-ground and raised-ground floors. In total, the listing records 14 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms.

That arrangement gives the purchaser several possible paths without requiring an immediate structural reinvention. The six residences can remain distinct for long-term investment use, subject to professional review of tenancy, regulatory and operating considerations. They can serve a multigenerational family or private office seeking separation within a single address. Or an owner can combine personal occupation with retained residential units, again subject to the necessary advice and permissions. The value of the proposition lies in that optionality, not in a promised yield.

The specification supports the building as a coherent asset. Kitchens use integrated Miele appliances and stone worktops; bathrooms incorporate Dornbracht and Antonio Lupi fittings. Lutron-controlled lighting, automated window treatments, in-ceiling audio and structured cabling run throughout. A glass lift reaches the principal levels, while renewed electrical, plumbing and telecommunications systems—and soundproofing between floors—address the practical demands of six-residence ownership.

Private terraces and the upper duplex's roof terrace provide outdoor space, while the address overlooks Cornwall Gardens, one of the area's established private garden squares. Gloucester Road, Kensington High Street, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens are all within easy reach.

For an international buyer, the attraction is not simply six apartments in a desirable postcode. It is the chance to acquire the freehold, the façade, the infrastructure and the full vertical stack—a finished Prime Central London building whose future can be considered as one asset rather than negotiated one unit at a time.

Source and photography: United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty. Property details reflect the verification date and may change.