60s icon’s neighbour puts London home on the market for £10,000,000

A seven-bedroom home in a particularly famous neighbourhood is up for sale (Picture: Arlington Residential) As neighbours go, it’d be pretty cool to live next to Sir Paul McCartney. For years, the Beatles hitmaker has owned a home in St John’s Wood, just a short walk from Abbey Road Studios, where the band recorded the infamous 1969 album named after it. Yes, the one where they’re all walking across the zebra crossing outside. Now, a home on the same NW8 street as Macca has come up for sale — to the sweet tune of £10 million. Found on Cavendish Avenue, the home is Grade II listed and includes a swimming pool, a south-facing garden, and a driveway with room for seven cars. Then, the inside is comprised of seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, a library, a conservatory, and a dressing room. Paul McCartney was the bassist in The Beatles (Picture: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Ready to start your homebuying journey? You can access completely fee-free mortgage advice with London & Country (L&C) Mortgages, a partner of Metro. Customers benefit from: – Award winning service from the UK’s leading mortgage broker – Expert advisors on hand 7 days a week – Access to 1000s of mortgage deals from across the market Unlike many mortgage brokers, L&C won’t charge you a fee for their advice. Find out how much you could borrow online Mortgage service provided by London & Country Mortgages (L&C), which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (registered number: 143002). The FCA does not regulate most Buy to Let mortgages. Your home or property may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage. Pictures of the listing, marketed through Arlington Residential, show bright, airy rooms, with ornate staircases, huge Georgian windows, and a leafy green garden, fit for any Beatles superfan. Location-wise, it’s only a stone’s throw from St John’s Wood High Street, and, crucially, Paul McCartney’s London home, which has quite the history. The bassist has owned his home at number seven for 60 years, moving in back in 1966. The home is up for sale for £10 million (Picture: Arlington Residential) It’s just a stone’s throw from Sir Paul’s first property (Picture: Arlington Residential) Ask Metro Use AI to go deeper into the stories you care about – powered by Metro and trusted publications. According to an unofficial fan site, he paid £40,000 for the property, and once renovations were finished, used it as a base for the Liverpudlian four-piece to relax after hefty recording sessions. It was the first house the Wings frontman ever bought too, with an old neighbour telling the Marylebone and Paddington Mercury back in October 1965 that she was ‘delighted to have a Beatle as a neighbour.’ But there were concerns some from that countless teenage fans would rock up to St John’s Wood in the hopes of catching a small glimpse of their favourite celeb. She added: ‘This is a nice road and I don’t think there will be any screaming teenagers. I think The Beatles are extremely nice. There are far too many people who think ‘Oh, how awful! The Beatles.'” Of course, there’s a swimming pool included (Picture: Arlington Residential) Naturally, music came into the interior design process. The Beatles Monthly Book wrote in April 1965 that the ‘most important room’ was the ‘songwriting den, complete with piano and guitars, where he can write new songs to his heart’s content.’ But Sir Paul isn’t the only famous celebrity neighbour to have put a home on the market of late. In 2024, London’s ‘most derelict house’ finally sold after seven years on the market, for £2,000,000. Located in Maida Vale on Pindock Mews – famously once home to Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols – the crumbling building had been a challenging sell. Last year, David Bowie’s childhood home in Bromley, South London, was then bought up for £449,500. David Bowie is most closely associated with the vibrant Brixton, having lived at 40 Stansfield Road until he was six years old. To this day, a mural of everyone’s favourite Starman – specifically styled as his alter ego Aladdin Sane – shines over the streets of Brixton Road. 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