After a short stint at Chester Square, Jagger and Faithfull moved to 48 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. It was “a sixteenth-century house that had belonged to a shipwright and had wonderful wobbly floors and a crooked staircase,” as Faithfull wrote in her memoir. Jagger’s bandmate, Keith Richards, owned a home just down the street. The “Gimme Shelter” singer and Faithfull broke up in 1970, but Jagger held on to his Cheyne Walk house until the end of the decade.
Stargroves, Hampshire
Jagger’s next home was Stargroves, an East Woodhay, Hampshire, manor that the musician bought for £55,000 in the 1970s. The Victorian Gothic mansion sometimes served as a recording studio, and the Rolling Stones recorded tracks from Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main Street, and It’s Only Rock n’ Roll at the property, inside the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio—a now-famed truck custom-equipped with all of the necessary recording equipment. According to Hampshire Live, Jagger sold Stargroves in 1979 for £200,000.
French château, Loire Valley
In 1980, Jagger paid $477,000 for Château de Fourchette, an estate in Pocé-sur-Cisse, a town in France’s Loire Valley. The rocker reportedly visits the property every summer, throwing a birthday bash every July 26. The 16th-century château sits on 50 landscaped acres and has a pond, a swimming pool, a tennis court, vegetable and flower gardens, and a Japanese pagoda. The 2005 Rolling Stones album A Bigger Bang was recorded on the premises, where Jagger also hunkered down during the pandemic. He still owns this property.
