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From Ladbroke Grove<\/a> to New York\u2019s Carroll Gardens and back to west London<\/a>, Lily Allen<\/a>\u2019s journey through bricks and mortar tells a story as candid and colourful as her music. <\/p>\n The West End Girl singer<\/a>, whose latest album delves into the breakdown of her marriage to David Harbour, has built a property portfolio that mirrors her life\u2019s many chapters \u2014 from her London roots to a transatlantic lifestyle and now, a homecoming.<\/p>\n Although Allen has called multiple cities home during her career, London remains her safe place. <\/p>\n The daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen grew up in Ladbroke Grove and has recounted hanging out at The Globe club, starring in a panto at The Tabernacle or going to Notting Hill Carnival with her close friend Miquita Oliver. <\/p>\n Miquita Oliver and Lily Allen have been friends for years<\/p>\n PA Archive<\/p>\n It is an area she has always gravitated towards, and in late 2025, she quietly snapped up a new flat, a 10-minute walk away from her mum in the capital. <\/p>\n Describing the purchase as a childhood dream realised on her podcast Miss Me?, she emphasised her connection to the local community and her desire to avoid any perception of gentrification despite the building\u2019s mixed council and private ownership. <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis flat that I\u2019ve bought is in a social housing building, I have kind of given myself a \u2018get out\u2019 clause because it is slap bang in the area which I grew up in, so I don\u2019t feel like I am coming from outside and coming into the area and gentrifying it,\u201d she said on the podcast. <\/p>\n \u201cI have wanted to live in this building since I was a baby, it\u2019s been a dream of mine forever and finally a flat became available in here and I was in a position to buy it and I did.\u201d <\/p>\n Allen grew up in Ladbroke Grove<\/p>\n Daniel Lynch<\/p>\n Allen went on to explain that she bought the flat from another private owner.<\/p>\n She called it her \u201chouse of dreams\u201d and has said that one of her big regrets is having to sell it in order to cover the cost of being sued by a former tour manager. <\/p>\n The loss was, by her own admission, \u201csoul-destroying\u201d and she checks every day to see if it has come back on the market. She sold the six-bedroom, which dates back to the 1600s, for \u00a34.2 million.<\/p>\n Her interior design for this home was boho country chic. Set in a picture-perfect cottage with a garden full of wildflowers and rose beds, it was decorated with a mix of vintage finds and heritage pieces. <\/p>\n Rooms had affectionate nicknames \u2014 from the Claridge\u2019s guest bedroom with crewelwork bedspreads and antique curtains to the Gellybub, stacked with guitars, comfy armchairs and shelves of vinyl.<\/p>\n The sitting spaces, decked out with photographs, drawings and quirky artefacts, were infused with a slightly kitschy style. Think mismatched textiles, well-worn sofas and walls crowded with curios. <\/p>\n Allen also owned a north London home. She bought the ground-floor two-bedroom flat for \u00a3900,000 in 2008 and rented it out during her Cotswolds move before moving back there in 2017. <\/p>\n It was not until 2019 that she met David Harbour and New York called. <\/p>\n The infamous Brooklyn brownstone <\/p>\n David Harbour and Lily Allen (Jeff Moore\/PA)<\/p>\n PA Archive<\/p>\n The most talked-about address in Allen\u2019s portfolio is the Carroll Gardens brownstone in Brooklyn that she shared with Stranger Things actor David Harbour during their marriage. <\/p>\n The 19th-century townhouse \u2014 a four-storey beauty on a leafy Union Street block \u2014 became the backdrop for one of the most colourful celebrity homes<\/a> ever featured on Architectural Digest<\/a>, blending a healthy dollop of English eccentricity with New York charm.<\/p>\n The couple purchased the property in early 2021 for around $3.35 million and embarked on an extensive renovation with designer Billy Cotton and architect Ben Bischoff. <\/p>\n Inside, whimsical design moments \u2014 from botanical Zuber wallpaper to an unexpected carpeted bathroom \u2014 sat alongside traditional details such as crown mouldings and fireplaces. A private garden complete with sauna and cold-plunge pool capped off the flamboyance.<\/p>\n Allen\u2019s album West End Girl references the home directly in its lyrics. <\/p>\n She sings: \u201cAnd now we’re all here, we’ve moved to New York \/ We’ve found a nice little rental near a sweet little school \/ Now I’m looking at houses with four or five floors \/And you’ve found us a brownstone, said \u2018You want it? It’s yours. So we went ahead and we bought it \/ Found ourselves a good mortgage \/ Billy Cotton got sorted \/ All the furniture ordered \/ I could never afford this \/You were pushing it forward \/ Made me feel a bit awkward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Ladbroke Grove to New York\u2019s Carroll Gardens and back to west London, Lily Allen\u2019s journey through bricks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,27054,393,4884,200537,19325,257,16,15,22540],"class_list":{"0":"post-655378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ladbroke-grove","13":"tag-lily-allen","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-west-london"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115784483223706252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/08d8b0b3223e66652799f3b53c7e5b8dY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzM2ODU1NjEx-2.4030681.jpg\")
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