Heritage of London Trust has announced that David Bowie’s childhood home in Bromley, south London, will be restored and opened to the public by late 2027.

Heritage of London Trust has announced that David Bowie’s childhood home in Bromley, south London, will be restored and opened to the public by late 2027.

The property at 4 Plaistow Grove was Bowie’s creative base between 1955 and 1967, where he wrote his earliest songs and developed the foundations of his musical career. He continued to return to the house in later years.

The restored home will be used as a space for creative and skills-based workshops for young people. The project will return the former “two-up, two-down” railway workers’ cottage to its early 1960s appearance, using a previously unseen archive to recreate the interior as it was during Bowie’s residency.

Geoffrey Marsh, co-curator of the V&A Museum’s David Bowie Is exhibition, described the house as the place where Bowie evolved from an “ordinary suburban schoolboy” into an artist of “international stardom.”

The restoration is supported by a £500,000 grant from the Jones Day Foundation, alongside a public fundraising campaign.

Nicola Stacey, director of Heritage of London Trust, said the project would both preserve an important site in London’s cultural history and inspire a new generation of young creatives.