MAYFAIR HOUSE
Known as Mayfair house, Caudwell’s roughly 43,000 sq. ft. mega-manse was purchased in 2012 for about $100 million.
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The owner of the $300 million-plus property is John Caudwell, an Englishman with working-class roots who made his fortune through the mobile phone company Phones 4U, which he sold for £1.5 billion in 2006.
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After a few years of throwing lavish parties, Caudwell recently embarked on an epic-scale renovation that reportedly ran him an astonishing $85 million.
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The construction project reportedly employed 300 workers and is the subject of the new Channel 4 documentary, “Britain’s Most Expensive Home: Building For a Billionaire.”
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It’s a far cry from the council estate (the U.K. version of a housing project) in which Caudwell grew up.
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“I just thought how magnificent it would be for gala evenings,” Caudwell told The Times of London about the ballroom.
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The house contains 15 bedrooms on eight floors, three of which are subterranean.
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Given Caudwell’s taste in sparkling, Elton John-like jackets (which are displayed on mannequins in the home), it’s hardly surprising that there’s a more than just a hint of Liberace or Louis XIV about the place.
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The extensive renovations of the mansion include a “volcano” wall, a swimming pool and staircases of solid white marble that connect to each of the eight floors.