A London townhouse that belonged to Brian Epstein, who managed the Beatles from 1962 until his death in 1967, has hit the market for £8.75 million (US$10.6 million).
Epstein, who is often referred to as “the fifth Beatle,” first encountered the band at a lunchtime concert at Liverpool’s Cavern Club and was instrumental to their meteoric rise to fame.
Epstein acquired the townhouse in the early 1960s, and it would serve as his home and then his business base—it’s where he developed an initial incarnation of the now iconic Apple Corps, set up to protect the band’s business interests.
Built in the 1750s, the six-story brick townhouse in posh Mayfair is loaded with upscale period features including parquet flooring, fireplaces, paneling, cornicing and gilded ceiling motifs, according to listing agency Wetherell, which brought the home to the market earlier this month.
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The main house boasts a large reception space and a light-filled kitchen—where John Lennon once graffitied onto tiles, which have since been ripped out and sold at auction—that opens to a large patio courtyard. There’s also a salon with a green fireplace, floor-to-ceiling windows and a balcony, plus a “magnificent” primary bedroom suite and a roof terrace.
The property has an adjoining mews house, too, which Epstein let the band use as an under-the-radar “Beatles bolthole,” according to Wetherell. It has its own discreet entrance and can also be reached through the basement of the main house.
It’s there that the Fab Four are believed to have worked on the 1967 album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” and where they were famously photographed together in a bathtub that stood in the middle of the mews house’s sitting room for a publicity stunt.
It’s rare to find such a property in “the heart of Mayfair that has not only retained so many wonderful traditional Georgian features, but comes with its original mews house intact and several private outdoor spaces,” said Peter Wetherell, founder and executive chairman of Wetherell.
Mansion Global couldn’t determine who’s selling the house or when it last changed hands.
This article originally appeared on Mansion Global.
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