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22/07/03 - Property news section

His 'n' hers homes for Tim

By Compton Miller

Evening Standard

Oscar-winning composer Sir Tim Rice has an unusual way of conducting his romance with artist Nell Sully, 25 years his junior. While he lives in his palatial Thames mansion in Barnes, she occupies a house he has bought her in Richmond. "It's very convenient for Tim as he and Nell are only a few miles apart," explains a friend. Rice, 57, a free spirit worth £133 million, enjoys privacy. He also owns a quiet pad in Cornwall and the 36,000-acre Dundonnell estate in Scotland.

Moira Lister plans to celebrate her 80th birthday next month in her new home in South Africa. She has sold her two-bedroom Eaton Square flat for an estimated £2 million and will now live in Constantia, one of Cape Town's smartest seaside resorts, where a substantial home costs £400,000 to £500,000. "She has just written to me," says a friend. "She said 'everyone is smiling but there's not much intellectual exchange!'"

Hollywood biographer Charles Castle is selling his Georgian-style mansion near Battle, East Sussex, for £1.3 million through FPDSavills. The five-bedroom property includes 10 acres of parkland laid out by award-winning gardener Christopher Lloyd and an aviary designed by Lord Snowdon. Castle bought Soggs Place in 1961 with his late partner, celebrity wigmaker Stanley Hall, and used it to entertain every major star from Greta Garbo and Vivien Leigh to Sir John Gielgud and Dame Margot Fonteyn. "I'm now buying a house near Toulouse with three gites attached," says Castle, who rebuilt Soggs after it burnt down in 1999.

Alan Woods, Thames Waterman to the Queen, is selling his weekend retreat on the Isle of Wight for £1.2 million through agent Christopher Wood. The converted Victorian boathouse near Cowes has seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms and a pontoon for mooring a yacht. Woods recently launched a new Thames boat service between Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Passengers have included President Putin, Cherie Blair, Sven-Goran Eriksson and So Solid Crew.

Rising fashion designer Katarzyna Szczotarska has rented a secondfloor flat in Kennington's Old Fire Station development for £ 290 a week through Hugues Nerin. She lives in the two-bedroom flat with her daughter Lola. The Polish-born couturier, who dresses supermodels such as Liberty Ross, Eva Herzigova and former James Bond girl Isabella Scorupco, will show her latest collection during London Fashion Week in September.

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