Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and you didn't receive any gifts involving either Jeremy Clarkson or John Barrowman. We're back and blogging, on a limited service, up until New Year.

This isn't London, but it's Brighton, which is kind of London, except saltier.

23 Lewes Crescent is a nice five-bedroom, Grade I-listed Regency townhouse, and the former home, we believe, of Cate Blanchett. Features? A sound-proof music studio (installed, we guess, by Blanchett's buyer Richard Stannard), gated gardens of seven acres (classy) and suede-covered walls (pervy). Guide price: £3.1m. Particulars: here.

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