Made In Chelsea: Our Five Favourite Properties With Cultural Connections

As we start gearing up for Chelsea Arts Festival later this month (the line-up packed with the likes of Elizabeth Day, Stephen Fry, Sir Lenny Henry, Kate Mosse, Ian McEwan and Twiggy, just to name a few), we’ve been reflecting on all the rich cultural history that Chelsea has to offer. Want to live among the famed artists, writers, actors and musicians who have made this iconic slice of London their home? Here’s your roundup of the best Chelsea properties with cultural connections that are currently on the market.

Discover The Chelsea Homes With Serious Cultural Connections

24 Cadogan Square – Valouran

24 Cadogan Square, Price on Application

This Grade II listed townhouse and connecting mews house has been carefully restored to its original grandeur through meticulous recrafting. Cadogan Square has always been attractive to creative individuals, especially those in film, writing and photography, with the likes of novelist Arnold Bennett and actor Christopher Lee having once called the area home. Down the road from this historic property sits 82 Cadogan Square, the house formerly owned by composer John Barry, the musical genius behind James Bond. To commemorate his achievements the house features as the exterior of M’s home in Skyfall (2012). valouran.com

Mallord Street – Knight Frank

Mallord Street,  £6,950,000

Built in 1911 by renowned architect Ralph Knott for watercolourist Cecil Arthur Hunt, this property later became home to world-renowned Hungarian pianist Louis Kentner. Situated on Mallord Street, the road was named after English Romantic painter Joseph Mallord William Turner. Replete with Edwardian houses built in the Arts and Crafts style, this quaint street has been home to countless artists, writers, and members of the intellectual elite over the years, including Winnie the Pooh author A. A. Milne. knightfrank.com 

Avenue Studios. Credit: Russell Simpson and photographer Noah Russell

Avenue Studios, £2,695,000

This former artist’s studio is set down a quiet avenue which once allegedly served as the site of Henry VIII’s stables. Around 1850 it was transformed into the studio of Baron Carlo Marochetti, Queen Victoria’s favourite sculptor. Sharing his studio and foundry with Sir Edwin Landseer, together the pair cast the lions at the base of Nelson’s Column at this very site. Other artists known to have used Avenue Studios for their work, include sculptor and goldsmith Sir Alfred Gilbert, who sculpted his famed Eros statue here. Circa 1870, the space was divided into smaller studios, attracting creatives and royal visitors such as John Singer Sargent, Charles Lutyens, Joseph Boehm, C. E. Halle, Poynter, Whistler and Queen Victoria herself. (Whisper it, but the Suffragettes even operated a secret press from the cellar of number five). struttandparker.com

Radnor Walk – John D Wood

Radnor Walk, £4,450,000

This four bedroom townhouse sits on Radnor Walk which has hosted a wide range of sculptors, artists and designers including Australian sculptor William Leslie Bowles, Irish sculptor and artist John Frances Kavanagh, British sculptor Francis Derwent-Wood and English interior decorator Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill. johndwood.co.uk 

15 Cheyne Walk – Becky Fatemi, Executive Partner of Sotheby’s International Realty UK

15 Cheyne Walk, £19,950,000

Built in 1717, this Grade II* townhouse, re-imagined under the guidance of English Heritage, incorporates sections of the garden wall from Henry VIII’s Manor. In its rich history of naval offices, ambassadors and politicians, 15 Cheyne Walk once housed distinguished engraver Henry Thomas Ryall (a favourite of Queen Victoria) as well as renowned landscape painter Cecil Gordon Lawson, famed for his rich detail and evocative use of colour. Other notable residents of the street include political leaders David Lloyd George and Sylvia Pankhurst, writers George Eliot and Henry James, and rock legends Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. sothebysrealty.co.uk  

How To Attend Chelsea Arts Festival

Inspired to explore Chelsea’s rich cultural scene for yourself? Chelsea Arts Festival is running from 18 to 21 September 2025. You can purchase your tickets to the events from Cadogan Hall, Saatchi Gallery and The Royal Court Theatre. Find the full line-up at chelseaartsfestival.com