Irish comedian Graham Norton recalls that he examined Manhattan’s real estate listings a couple of decades ago and was beaten by the photos of a charming garage located in a small meow in Murray Hill.
The house, in 6 sniffen Court, which later learned that the model Claudia Schiffer was selling to London, where she lived and worked at that time. “I couldn’t stop thinking about that,” said Mr. Norton, who organizes “The Graham Norton Show” in the BBC, in an email: “And finally he collapsed and flew to see it.”
Upon arrival, other properties were shown in the city, he said: “But none of them captured my heart of the way the court cut did. Once you enter the court, there is no sense that you are in the heart of Manhattan!”
Mr. Norton bought the house of the mid -nineteenth century in 2002 and used it as a Pied -Ã -Terre, except for a brief period, in 2004, when I was in New York organizing the “Ny Graham Norton” interview program. He clung to property and only recently completed an intestinal renewal, thinking that one day he could retire in New York. But the plans changed, he said, after marrying Jono Mcleod, a Scottish filmmaker, in 2022.
The camera is now back in the market for $ 5,595 million, according to the listing corridor, Chris Kann of the Corcoran group. Property taxes are $ 40,156 per year, and annual fees paid to a resident association are $ 1,800.
The house is part of the historical district of Sniffen Court, right next to East 36th Street, near Third Avenue. It is one of the 10 brick carriage houses, previously stable of horses, built between 1863 and 1864. Private stone maullids had been the home of composer Cole Porter and musician Lenny Kravitz.
“I don’t think many people know about this little Maullide,” Kann said. “When passing through the entrance door, it attracts you immediately to another moment. It is, with much, one of the most charming and picturesque environments that one can experience in New York City. It is very European.”
Three floors high and around 20 feet wide, Mr. Norton’s house, in an early Romanesque Renaissance style, has approximately 2,500 square feet and has a roof cover that measures approximately 465 square feet. There are two bedrooms and two of a half bath. Throughout the inner space there are hard wood and crown moldings and restored sockets.
The interior was updated by John and Christine Gachot, the husband and wife who directs Gachot Studios.
The main door of the house opens in the large room of 17 by 19 feet, where there are high ceilings of 15 feet and a row of trifor windows that bring a large light. On a wall, there are seats just below a large image window, and in another, a firewood fireplace made of lilac stone.
Beyond the Great Room There is a library with an area of ​​bar and shelves and cabinets incorporated, along with a formal dining room adorned in red and with an Andy Warhol print of actress Jane Fonda. The nearby kitchen with windows is equipped with stainless steel countertops and splashes, green wooden cabinets and a narrow breakfast bar. The lower level also includes a dressing table with a personalized dressing table in Emerald Quartcita.
The stairs in the big room lead to the second floor, where there is a large guest bedroom with a suite bathroom.
The main bedroom suite, with a marble bath and a lot of space in the closet, is at the upper level. Includes a house den/office with a skylight outside the sleeping area and a morning bar/kitchen with window banquet seats. A set of stairs is directed to the irrigated roof deck lined with coverage plants and in a pot. There are carved areas to rest, eat and entertain.
“It is a great house to entertain yourself with the terrace of the ceiling for the summer and the chimney that works in winter,” Norton said. “There have been many parties, large and small, over the years.”
Mr. Norton will miss the house of carriages, which he calls “a jeweler.”
“I love the high roofs of the living room and I adore the small den,” he said. “To be honest, I love everything equally.”
He and her husband would ever consider another place in New York? “London is still where my job is and where we spend the vast majority of our time,” Norton said. “Never say, but that’s not the current plan.”
