It’s only rock and roll but we like it
May 13th, 2010 by Nigel Lewis
The genteel appearance of this five-bedroom, three bathroom Edwardian house overlooking Kew Gardens in South West London is deceptive, given that it can claim some guitar-licking rock and roll history.
Anyone viewing today who has £2.75 million to burn is likely to appreciate its buzzy location in between the Lower Richmond Road, Kew Gardens (which it overlooks) and Kew Bridge.
There are also two railway station within walking distance of the house, which has recently been given a sympathetic upgrade balancing modernity in the kitchen and preserved tradition elsewhere – including an original and gorgeous curved wooden staircase plus a cathedral-load of period stained glass within both the exterior and interior doors.
So to the rock and roll. The house was for many years the home of Irishman Phil Lynott, energetic drug taker and front man of 1970s mega-group Thin Lizzy. Lynott lived at the house with his wife Caroline, daughter of TV presenter Leslie Crowther, and turned the property’s two-storey outbuilding into a recording studio which he rented out for sessions during the 1970s and 1980s to a litany of rock royalty including Mick Jagger and Bob Geldoff .
Lynott collapsed at the house on 25th December 1986 and after being admitted to hospital died on 4th January 1986 at Salisbury Infirmary, aged just 36.
