Does anybody know anything about The Bishops Avenue, London, N2?
What would you like to know? The Bishops Avenue — or at least the section running up from the A1 to the Heath, is a mixture of huge mansions and (set back from the road, in the closes that spur off it) super-luxury apartments. There’s nothing like it anywhere else in the UK — in fact the place it reminds me of most is Bellevue Avenue in Rhode Island. It dates back about 120 years, so it’s not an old road by London standards. In January this year, just one property on the Bishops Avenue — Toprak Mansion — netted £41 million. It was sold to Hourieh Peramaa, a billionairess born in the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan. She’s taking the typical ‘Bishops Avenue’ approach to her purchase: she’s had the name ‘Toprak Mansion’ chipped away and replaced with the name ‘Royal Mansion’ — and is planning a further £30 million worth of work to bring the property up to scratch. ‘Summer Palace’, the next-door house, belongs to Lakshmi Mittal, and now that’s gone on the market for £40 million. So
