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London Schools

Queen's College Preparatory School
Tel: 020 7291 0660
61 Portland Place, London, W1B 1QP

Southbank International School
Tel: 020 7436 9699
63-65 Portland Place, London, W1B 1QR

Gabbitas Educational Consultants Ltd
Tel: 020 7734 0161
Carrington House, 126-130 Regent Street, London, W1B 5EE

Campbell Harris Tutors
Tel: 020 7937 0032
185 Kensington High Street, London, W8 6SH

Heathfield House School
Tel: 020 8994 3385
Turnham Green, Heathfield Gardens, Church Hall, London, W4 4JU

Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School
Tel: 020 8846 9153
16 Ravenscourt Avenue, London, W6 0SL

The Lloyd Williamson School
Tel: 020 8962 0345
12 Telford Road, London, W10 5SH

The Falcons School For Boys
Tel: 020 8747 8393
2 Burnaby Gardens, London, W4 3DT

Ecole Francaise Jacques Prevert
Tel: 020 7602 6871
59 Brook Green, London, W6 7BE

The King Fahad Academy
Tel: 020 8832 9040
Little Ealing Lane, London, W5 4EJ

Greek School Of London
Tel: 020 8992 6156
3 Pierrepoint Road, London, W3 9JR

Aston House School
Tel: 020 8997 3209
10 Montpelier Road, London, W5 2QP

Durston House Junior School
Tel: 020 8991 6450
26 Castlebar Road , London, W5 2DP

Durston House School
Tel: 020 8991 6530
Main School, 12-14 Castlebar Road, London, W5 2DR

St Augustine's Priory
Tel: 020 8997 2022
Hillcrest Road, London, W5 2JL

Harvington School
Tel: 020 8997 1583
20 Castlebar Road, London, W5 2DS

Avenue House School
Tel: 020 8998 9981
70 The Avenue, London, W13 8LS

Emerson House
Tel: 020 8741 4554
40 Redmore Road, London, W6 0HZ

Latymer Prep School
Tel: 020 8748 0303
36 Upper Mall, London, W6 9TA

Bassett House School
Tel: 020 8969 0313
60 Bassett Road, London, W10 6JP

St Jame's Independent School
Tel: 020 7348 1700
Earsby Street, London, W14 8SH

Barbara Speake Stage School
Tel: 020 8743 6096
East Acton Lane, London, W3 7EG

Ladbroke Square Montessori School
Tel: 020 7229 0125
43 Ladbroke Square, London, W11 3ND

Latymer Upper School
Tel: 020 8741 1851
237 King Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9LR

The Spanish School
Tel: 020 8968 8718
317a Portobello Road, London, W10 5SY

The King Fahad Academy
Tel: 020 8743 0131
East Acton Lane, London, W3 7HD

The Falcons Schools For Girls
Tel: 020 8992 5189
15 Gunnersbury Avenue, London, W5 3XD

Norland Place School
Tel: 020 7603 9103
162 Holland Park Avenue, London, W11 4UH

Orchard House School
Tel: 020 8742 8544
16 Newton Grove, London, W4 1LB

The Arts Educational School
Tel: 020 8987 6666
14 Bath Road, London, W4 1LY

Acton Yochien
Tel: 020 8896 9696
Sports Pavilion, Queens Drive, London, W3 0HT

Southbank International School
Tel: 020 7229 8230
36-38 Kensington Park Road, London, W11 3BU

Pembridge Hall School For Girls
Tel: 020 7229 0121
18 Pembridge Square, London, W2 4EH

Ealing Independent College
Tel: 020 8579 6668
83 New Broadway, London, W5 5AL

Escape Studios
Tel: 020 7348 1920
Shepherds Building, Rockley Road, London, W14 0DA

Instituto Espanol
Tel: 020 8969 2664
317a Portobello Road, London, W10 5SZ

Chiswick & Bedford Park Preparatory School
Tel: 020 8994 1804
Priory House, Priory Avenue, London, W4 1TX

Hampshire School
Tel: 020 7229 7065
Kensington Gardens, 9 Queensborough Terrace, London, W2 3TB

St Pauls Girls School
Tel: 020 7603 2288
Brook Green, London, W6 7BS

Connaught House School
Tel: 020 7262 8830
47 Connaught Square, London, W2 2HL

Aston House School
Tel: 020 8566 7300
1 Aston Road , London, W5 2RL

The Japanese School Ltd
Tel: 020 8993 7145
87 Creffield Road, London, W3 9PU

The Lloyd Williamson School
Tel: 020 7243 3331
112 Palace Gardens Terrace, London, W8 4RT

St Benedict's Junior School
Tel: 020 8862 2050
5 Montpelier Avenue, London, W5 2XP

Notting Hill & Ealing High School
Tel: 020 8799 8400
2 Cleveland Road, London, W13 8AX

Tabernacle School
Tel: 020 7602 6232
St. Anns Villas, London, W11 4RS

Bute House Preparatory School
Tel: 020 7603 7381
Bute House, Luxemburg Gardens, London, W6 7EA

King Street College
Tel: 020 8748 0971
4 Hammersmith Broadway, London, W6 7AL

St Benedict's School
Tel: 020 8862 2000
54 Eaton Rise, London, W5 2ES

Toprak Mansions
Price: £50 million ($88.5 million)
Location: The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, London

Toprak Mansion, built by Turkish entrepreneur Halis Toprak, and laid along the millionaire's row of Bishops Avenue, is in one of the most sought after addresses in North London and covers two acres of landscaped gardens. The grand entrance to the 28,000-square-foot house has a double staircase and a glass elevator. There is also an indoor leisure complex that has a swimming pool with a glass bridge, sauna and not surprisingly a Turkish bath that seats 20.

Witanhurst
Price: £32 million ($57 million)
Location: 41 Highgate West Hill, Hampstead, London

This protected neo-Georgian mansion is one of the largest in London after Buckingham Palace and encompasses nearly 40,000 square feet of living space. The Queen Anne-style house has 25 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms and is set within 5.5 acres, which includes three gatehouses and a number of gardens. Witanhurst was built between 1913 and 1920 for soap magnate and member of Parliament, Sir Arthur Crossfield, although one wing in the house dates from the 1700s. Neighbors include Sting and George Michael.

Old Swan House
Price: £32 million ($57 million)
Location: 17 Chelsea Embankment, London
Old Swan House is one of the largest houses in Chelsea. It was designed by the renowned Victorian architect Norman Shaw in 1875, and it continues to have commanding views over the River Thames towards Battersea Park from its second floor ballroom. A Grade II-listed house--which means it must be preserved by British law--this 19,000-square-foot home still has its brick exterior intact, as well as five principal bedrooms and 11 staff bedrooms, a dining room that seats 20, private terraces, a swimming pool complex with sauna and showers, a passenger lift, air conditioning, state-of-the-art security and hi-fi systems. Do not forget the cinema and parking for five cars.

Debenham House
Price: £29 million ($51 million)
Location: 8 Addison Road, Holland Park, London

Debenham House is a 22,000-square-foot property that is listed as Grade I, which means it is in the U.K.'s statutory list of buildings of special architectural interest. Built in 1906 and designed by Halsy Ricardo, this house is a mixture of the Arts and Crafts movement, neo-classical and Byzantine styles. Glazed tiles are used extensively inside this ten-bedroom, five-bathroom house. Some depict peacocks, eagles, flowers, galleons and mythical beasts. Many may have come from an assignment originally commissioned for the Russian czar's yacht Livadia, built in the 1870's. In addition, there is a covered walkway from the road, a front garden laid out in a formal Dutch style and an Orangery in the back garden, where there is also a croquet lawn and a coach house with two-bedroom suites. But it's not lacking in modern amenities: a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, gym and billiards room can all be found on the property.

17 Upper Phillimore Gardens
Price: £25 million ($44 million)
Location: Kensington, London

The property was used by the Kensington Preparatory School for Girls from 1941 until 1997. After extensive renovation, it is now a detached property with bags of character. This nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom house covers more than 18,000 square feet over five floors, with two dining rooms. There is even an eight-person passenger lift, indoor swimming pool, gym, sauna and steam room, while all lighting in the house is computerized. An underground tunnel connects the house to the three-vehicle garage, and outside there is a Japanese-inspired garden with a waterfall. The house is part of the Phillimore Estate, situated within the Kensington Conservation Area--an architecturally preserved, historical London suburb.

Carlton House
Price: £17 million ($30 million)
Location: Bishops Avenue, Highgate, London
This new, 15,000-square-foot house on a half-acre features a 50-foot long ballroom, catering kitchen fitted out for banquets, cherrywood-paneled library and gentleman's study. This property has nine bedroom suites, all with Italian marble bathrooms, a sweeping oval staircase rising through three floors and a wood-paneled lift that takes six.

The leisure complex has a heated mosaic swimming pool, sauna, gym and a 12-person Turkish bath, which was modeled on the one in Toprak Mansions. And, like Thunderbirds, there is a vehicle lift that takes your car from the forecourt into the four-vehicle garage below.

16 Mansfield Street
Price: £15.5 million ($27 million)
Location: Near Cavendish Square, Central London

It is described as a "palatial residence for Europe's royalty and nobility." Mansfield Street was designed and built in 1770 by one of the most renowned architects of the time--Robert Adam--for the Duke of Portland. There are only a few of Adam's palatial residences remaining in London, of which 16 Mansfield Street is one of the best. The nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom property on five floors comes with electrically heated marble floors, panic buttons on every level, a gold vault and a marbled courtyard.

Hanover House
Price: £15 million ($26 million)
Location: Shepley, Drive, Wentworth Estate, Berkshire
Located near Ascot and bordering the 14th fairway of Wentworth course, Hanover House is a 2.3-acre property that was finished in 2003 and has yet to be occupied. Inside the 17,000-square-foot house are five bedroom suites including a second-floor penthouse. The home has under-floor heating, air conditioning, high-specification security and a ten-line telephone system with 17 extensions. The property also hosts an indoor swimming pool with Jacuzzi, steam shower and sauna, floodlit tennis court and landscaped gardens.

14 Charles Street
Price: £15 million ($26 million)
Location: Mayfair, London

A newly restored Mayfair mansion, right in the heart of central London, comes with a sense of grandeur--check out the double-height, galleried reception room with chandelier. This four-bedroom suite house covering 11,000 square feet has an impressive open staircase as well as a Mews House out back with three further bedroom suites. The house also comes with a 45-foot swimming pool and double garage. It also comes with a laid out 50-foot formal garden.

28 Cadogan Square
Price: £14 million ($25 million)
Location: Knightsbridge, London

This listed family house in one of the best residential areas in central London was designed by the well-known Victorian architect George Devey in 1886 for the Earl of Cadogan. It sits on the west side of this central London garden square with a mews house behind. In the 1950s, the house was severely modernized inside to create more space and a lighter feel. It now has nine bedrooms, four bathrooms, a roof terrace, patio garden and lift. The house had been passed down by descent, although when the present earl inherited the title and the estate, he remained in his Chelsea house. The Cadogan Estate office occupied the building, but they moved out in 1996, and the house was put up for sale. The property sits on the picturesque Cadogan Square, which has a communal two-acre garden incorporating a tennis court.

68 Cadogan Place
Price: £12 million ($21 million)
Location: Knightsbridge, Central London

This imposing 11-bedroom home also comes with its own Mews house. Mews houses were originally used for the horses and coachmen. It can now be used as a staff quarters. The Grade II-listed property has state-of-the-art technology with music systems integrated into the principal rooms. There's a swimming pool, gym and steam room, as well as extensive gardens behind. The house is also a few minutes walk from some of London's best amenities--Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Sloane Square for shopping, restaurants in Knightsbridge and nightlife on Kings Road.

Sources: Land Registry data in the public domain, our own research via contacts (selling agents, buyers, solicitors etc.) and information published in Country Life magazine. Where a private sale/exchange of trust took place (i.e. no registration at The Land Registry) figures stated are asking prices. Whilst every care has been taken in the preparation of this information. Sands does not guarantee or accept responsibility for its accuracy. E&OE.

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