79 Mount Street is a house in Mount Street, Mayfair, London W1. The house was built in 1892–1894 by

Eustace Balfour Colonel Eustace James Anthony Balfour (8 June 1854 – 14 February 1911) was a London-based Scottish architect. The brother of one British Prime Minister and nephew of another, his career was built on family connections. His mother was th ...

and Hugh Thackeray Turner of Balfour and Turner, in "Free Style Queen Anne", or in an Arts and Crafts style. It has been listed Grade II on the

National Heritage List for England The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) is England's official database of protected heritage assets. It includes details of all English listed buildings, scheduled monuments, register of historic parks and gardens, protected shipwrecks, a ...

since December 2017. In the 1930s, it was home to John Powys, 5th Baron Lilford. In 2008, it was refurbished by the Meller family, who used the upper floors as a home and the basement to second floors as offices, with a swimming pool built in the basement. In May 2015, British businessman

David Meller David Robert Meller (born December 1959) is a British businessman, and the sponsor of an academy trust, and a member of the Department for Education's board of directors, until the scandal surrounding the Presidents Club, of which he was the j ...

sold the 10,000 sq ft six-storey house to the Qatari royal family for £40 million, as part of a growing " Qatari quarter" centred on Dudley House in nearby

Park Lane Park Lane is a dual carriageway road in the City of Westminster in Central London. It is part of the London Inner Ring Road and runs from Hyde Park Corner in the south to Marble Arch in the north. It separates Hyde Park to the west from ...

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