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...If this is the playful side of the collectors’ passion, it’s borne out in the sculpture park that stretches through olive groves around the property....
...In the ’90s Fergus Henderson cooked from a tiny stove for regulars like Lucian Freud and his daughters. Today sees it in the stylish hands of Robie Uniacke....
...His good friends included Lucian Freud and, importantly, the elegant Joan Eyres Monsell, whom Leigh Fermor later married, the pillar of his life....
...“Prime central London looks fully priced and people are looking elsewhere for better value,” says Lucian Cook, director of residential research at Savills....
...“The media and arts crowd are often the pioneers of gentrification,” says Lucian Cook of Savills....
...Property prices in the area are up 9 per cent on Shepherd’s Bush as a whole, according to Savills, and a six-bedroom Victorian terrace on Hammersmith Grove is currently on the market for £3m with Bective...
...But locals now tell stories of how banana groves are being hacked down to make way for homes....
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