The Irish comic Graham Norton remembers sifting by means of Manhattan actual property listings a few a long time in the past and being struck by the photographs of a captivating carriage home nestled in a tiny gated mews in Murray Hill.
The house, at 6 Sniffen Courtroom, which he later realized was being bought by the mannequin Claudia Schiffer, reminded him of London, the place he was dwelling and dealing on the time. “I couldn’t cease fascinated by it,” Mr. Norton, who hosts “The Graham Norton Present” on the BBC, mentioned in an e mail, “and eventually caved in and flew over to see it.”
Upon his arrival, he was proven different properties across the metropolis, he mentioned, “however none of them captured my coronary heart in the way in which Sniffen Courtroom did. When you step into Sniffen Courtroom there isn’t a sense that you’re within the coronary heart of Manhattan!”
Mr. Norton purchased the mid-Nineteenth-century home in 2002 and used it as a pied-à-terre, aside from a quick interval, in 2004, when he was in New York internet hosting the “NY Graham Norton” speak present. He held onto the property and solely just lately accomplished a intestine renovation, considering that he would possibly sometime retire in New York. However plans modified, he mentioned, after he married Jono McLeod, a Scottish filmmaker, in 2022.
The home is now again available on the market for $5.595 million, in line with the itemizing dealer, Chris Kann of the Corcoran Group. Property taxes are $40,156 a 12 months, and annual dues paid to a residents’ affiliation are $1,800.
The house is a part of the Sniffen Courtroom Historic District, simply off East thirty sixth Road close to Third Avenue. It’s one in all 10 brick carriage homes, previously horse stables, constructed between 1863 and 1864. The non-public stone mews had through the years been dwelling to the composer Cole Porter and the musician Lenny Kravitz.
“I don’t assume lots of people learn about this little mews,” Mr. Kann mentioned. “Passing by means of the entry gate you’re instantly drawn to a different time. It’s by far probably the most charming and picturesque settings one can expertise in New York Metropolis. It’s very European.”
Three tales excessive and round 20 ft large, Mr. Norton’s home, in Early Romanesque Revival type, is roughly 2,500 sq. ft and has a rooftop deck measuring about 465 sq. ft. There are two bedrooms and two an a half bogs. All through the inside house are hardwood flooring and restored crown moldings and baseboards.
The inside was up to date by John and Christine Gachot, the husband-and-wife workforce that runs Gachot Studios.
The home’s entrance door opens into the 17-by-19-foot nice room, the place there are hovering 15-foot ceilings and a row of clerestory home windows that usher in an abundance of sunshine. On one wall, there may be seating just under an oversize image window, and on one other, a wood-burning fire crafted of lilac stone.
Past the good room is a library with a bar space and built-in bookshelves and cabinetry, together with a proper eating room bedecked in crimson and that includes an Andy Warhol print of the actress Jane Fonda. The close by windowed kitchen is outfitted with stainless-steel counter tops and backsplash, inexperienced wooden cabinetry and a slim breakfast bar. The decrease degree additionally features a powder room with a customized vainness in emerald quartzite.
Stairs within the nice room lead as much as the second ground, the place there’s a spacious visitor bed room with an en suite toilet.
The first bed room suite, with a marble toilet and a great deal of closet house, is on the highest degree. It features a den/dwelling workplace with a skylight off the sleeping space and a morning bar/kitchenette with window banquette seating. A set of stairs heads as much as the irrigated roof deck lined with hedging and potted vegetation. There are areas carved out for lounging, eating and entertaining.
“It’s an amazing home for entertaining with the roof terrace for summer season and the working fire within the winter,” Mr. Norton mentioned. “There have been a lot of events, massive and small, through the years.”
Mr. Norton will miss the carriage home, which he calls “a jewel field.”
“I like the hovering ceilings of the lounge and adore the small den/research,” he mentioned. “To be sincere, I like the entire thing pretty equally.”
Would he and his husband ever take into account one other place in New York? “London stays the place my work is and the place we spend the overwhelming majority of our time,” Mr. Norton mentioned. “By no means say by no means, however that’s not the present plan.”
