Goldsmith wrote a memoir, No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years about her time at the house.
[2] Goldsmith described her first visit to the house creating a "catch of pure excitement in my throat...I could not believe that such an oasis could exist only a few yards from South Kensington Tube station.
[2] The house was sold by the German art historian and industrial heir Gert-Rudolf Flick for £40 million to the businessman Richard Caring in 2017.
The planned basement will incorporate a cinema and a 50 ft (15 m) long swimming pool as well as a massage, steam and sauna rooms and a gym.
A £235,000 payment for local housing in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea formed part of the conditions for the council's approval of the plans.