The flamboyant Culture Club icon is asking $19.5 million for his modernized Gothic mansion in London's Hampstead. Read more from our friends at DirtDotCom.
Perhaps unfairly described in the “Pevsner Architectural Guides” as a “formidable atrocity,” and more humorously in the 1974 book “The Streets of Hampstead” as a “wonderful uncertainty between Gothic and Italian,” the playfully outlandish Grade II listed residence was built of plain beige bricks embellished with red Mansfield stone around 1868 as the private residence of engineer and developer Edward Gotto.
The unconventional layout incorporates a modestly proportioned entry vestibule that gives way to a triple-height space that doubles as the reception hall, stair gallery and dining room. Ringed by balconies lined with florid wrought iron railings, the cathedral-esque space is festooned with Corinthian marble columns and kaleidoscopic stained-glass windows. Polychromatic artworks, some of them by George, animate the walls.
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