Modernist set for Cheryl, Alexa and Poirot: Chertsey round house backdrop to TV shows, music videos and fashion lookbooks for sale

The Surrey property has appeared in TV shows such as Poirot, music videos for Cheryl and fashion lookbooks featuring Alexa Chung.
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Amira Hashish12 June 2019

St Ann’s Court in Chertsey, 30 minutes west of central London, formed the backdrop to pop videos and fashion lookbooks for the likes of Cheryl and Alexa Chung.

Part of the seven-bedroom house is devoted to a sound studio built by Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, a previous owner, and is where many of the band’s hits were recorded.

The Grade II*-listed house, designed in 1936 by Sir Raymond McGrath, also featured in TV series including Poirot.

Made up of a modernist round house and a converted coach house, St Ann’s Court was commissioned by stockbroker Gerald Schlesinger with a bedroom that could be divided in two, so he could hide his then-illegal gay relationship with landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.

For sale at £9 million three years ago, it’s now on with Strutt & Parker, price on application. It’s rumoured that tech entrepreneur owner Osman Kent could consider £6.5 million.

St Ann's Court, in Chertsey, formed the backdrop to many pop videos
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