Charlie Watts: A mansion flat before a real mansion

Charlie Watts, 23, was ever the natty dresser. Wearing a shirt that matches the curtains and standing on the stripped pine floor of the rented mansion flat he shared with his wife shirley near london’s regent’s Park, the drummer’s taste betrayed his art school education.

the ivor Court flat in, Gloucester Place, Marylebone, would have cost about £5,000 in 1965. it is now a sought-after part of london and the current value is estimated at £340,000.

Charlie and his wife now live in halsdon house, Dolton, North Devon — a sevenbedroom property, with stables boasting an arabian horse stud farm. the entire property is certain to be worth several million.

Additional reporting: Gwyneth Rees