London Townhouse with Oscar Wilde and Beatles Ties Listed for $9.3 Million

A Victorian townhouse at Ovington Gardens in London's Knightsbridge, with historical ties to Oscar Wilde and the Beatles, has been listed for $9.3 million. The property, spanning just over 3,000 square feet across five levels, was designed by architect William Wilmer Pocock in the mid-1800s for Elizabeth Standerwick, also known as Baroness von Zandt, who named the street and square after her childhood home in Hampshire. The home features a white-washed stucco facade, soaring ceilings, sash windows, a fireplace-warmed drawing room, a dining room opening to terraces, and a hunter-green kitchen with herringbone wood floors. The primary suite occupies the entire second floor, with two additional bedrooms upstairs and two on the lower ground floor, one of which could serve as a media room opening to a southwest-facing rear garden. The property is listed with Stine Kaus at DDRE Global. Ovington Gardens and Ovington Square have attracted notable residents including Oscar Wilde, Ernestine Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth's cousin), and Vera Bate Lombardi (Coco Chanel's muse). Apple Corps, the Beatles' music company founded in 1968, is also located on the square. The location offers proximity to Harrods, the Natural History Museum, and Hyde Park. The listing follows other garden-adjacent London properties hitting the market, including a Carlton Gardens duplex for $19 million and a 400-year-old Georgian-style estate for over $14 million.