Carlyle Mansions

This exquisite four-bedroom apartment overlooks the banks of the River Thames from Chelsea’s esteemed Cheyne Walk. It is situated on the coveted west and south-facing first floor of Carlyle Mansions and exceeds 2,250 sq ft internally, with rare step-free lateral space and the convenience of an on-site porter.

Setting the Scene

The prestigious red-brick mansion block, built in the 1880s, is named after historian, mathematician and sage Thomas Carlyle and has since become synonymous with a rich legacy of literary residents. Henry James, T. S. Eliot and Ian Fleming are just a few of the noted authors whom, at one time or another, called Carlyle Mansions home, earning the building the amusing sobriquet “The Writer’s Block”.

This particular apartment was the residence of British designer and academic Bernard Nevill, who held professorships at Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He was also design director for Liberty London from 1965, revitalising their traditional prints, introducing art deco-style patterns and Islamic themes. His former residence, West House on Glebe Place, was the setting for some of the most iconic scenes in the cult cinema classic ‘Withnail and I’, and this apartment bears many of the fabrics, artefacts and artworks of that lavishly curated backdrop.