Lily Allen and actor David Harbour have listed their marital townhouse in Brooklyn for just under $8 million—mere days after the singer spilled some very intimate details about their bitter breakup in her new album.
The sprawling Carroll Gardens property, which has been listed by Carl Gambino of Compass, was put on the market on Oct. 26 for $7.99 million—more than double the $3.35 million price that the former couple paid for the dwelling in 2021.
Allen, 40, and Harbour, 50, were deep in the throes of their romance when they snapped up the home, which served as their primary abode throughout their four-year marriage.
However, that marriage broke down earlier this year, when reports began to surface that they had pulled the plug on their relationship.
Speculation was rife over what had caused the split—only for Allen to lay it all bare in her new album, “West End Girl.” In it, she leveled several shocking accusations about Harbour’s alleged infidelity, with the townhouse playing a central role in the title track of the record.
According to the song, the decision to buy the home was largely Harbour’s, with Allen singing: “Now I’m looking at houses with four or five floors / And you’ve found us a brownstone, said ‘You want it? It’s yours.'”
She adds in the lyrics that she didn’t feel she could ever have afforded the property without the help of her spouse, admitting that the financial situation made her feel “a bit awkward,” particularly because she says Harbour was the one “pushing” to seal the deal.
After buying the home, the couple carried out an extensive interior overhaul, working with designer Billy Cotton—who is also referenced in Allen’s song—to turn the historic abode into a “weird” and whimsical wonderland.
“So we went ahead and we bought it / Found ourselves a good mortgage / Billy Cotton got sorted / All the furniture ordered / I could never afford this / You were pushing it forward / Made me feel a bit awkward / Made me feel a bit awkward,” Allen recalled in “West End Girl.”
The property, which is situated on a Brooklyn block adorned with lush greenery, measures four stories and boasts five bedrooms and four bathrooms.
According to the listing, the 22-foot-wide property marries “traditional English charm, modern Brooklyn sensibilities and rich Italian influence.”
Upon entering the abode, guests are greeted with green carpeting that leads to a white staircase.
Adjacent to the entrance is the cozy living area, which comes complete with floral wallpaper, green crown molding, a fireplace, and glass doors to the backyard, which boasts its own sauna and cold plunge.
The chef’s kitchen is entirely white, including the tile backsplash, and comes complete with state-of-the-art appliances, a large island, and a chandelier.
There is also a large breakfast nook that is situated next to a window and seats several people.
One of the bathrooms features blue floral wallpaper, a fireplace, and a large soaking tub.
The many bedrooms boast enough space for a king-sized bed and large windows, which flood the rooms with natural light.
An office space features multicolor wallpaper and a large window.
Another lounging room has zebra-print carpeting and a matching zebra-print couch.
The garden level features a guest suite, a powder room, and a basement with a gym, laundry, and storage.
In 2023, the couple showed off their remarkable abode in a shoot with Architectural Digest, which joked that the pair had created a “mad, mad, mad, mad world” inside their townhouse.
At the time, Harbour—who is best known for his role as Jim Hopper in the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things”—credited Allen for being a driving force behind the colorful and eccentric wonderland.
“Lily is someone who lives with color in a deeper way than most. Her taste is bold, silly, fun, eccentric. It’s exciting,” he told AD.
The result was a far cry from the dilapidated state the Carroll Gardens brownstone had been in when Harbour and Allen purchased it.
“The façade was badly deteriorated, and the interior was … well, let’s say it was very lived-in,” according to their architect, Ben Bischoff.
It was also a big move away from the midcentury modern aesthetic that Harbour enjoyed in his first home—a one-bedroom loft inside a former wagon factory in New York‘s trendy NoHo neighborhood.
In that home, Harbour’s bedroom was filled with natural light courtesy of the enormous windows and sky-high ceilings.
Yet, in the home that he and Allen built together, the pink primary suite was windowless, creating the impression of a cozy cave in stark contrast with his former dwelling.
While offering AD a glimpse inside their home, Allen described the room as a “bed womb.”
Elsewhere in the home, light fills the space, including in the carpeted primary bathroom, which is outfitted with an enormous tub and a fireplace. The bathroom also doubles as a sitting room, with the shower and toilet moved to a separate area to allow lounging space in the room.
According to property records, the former couple snapped up the dwelling under two separate trusts and financed it with a $2.5 million mortgage.
The former spouses filed multiple renovation permits during 2021 and 2023, including one valued at $282,600.
“It appears no one has been home for quite some time. Every house on the street has Halloween decorations, but not Lily and David’s.
“It’s a very family-friendly neighborhood—Lily was very active in the community when she lived here with David,” one neighbor told The Sun.
The hitmaker, who tied the knot to the actor in 2020 after meeting on the dating app Raya, has relocated to London with her two daughters from her previous marriage.
Meanwhile, the actor is residing in his West Village dwelling, which is where Allen seemingly claimed her in album her former husband allegedly had an affair with Natalie Tippett, a costume designer the actor met in New Orleans in 2021.
