Remaking history
Nov 12, 2020
3 minutes
PHOTOGRAPHY: EMILY MARSHALL
WRITER: HARRIET THORPE
n London, Victorian houses live multiple lives. Families move in and out, architects add extensions, or in the case of this townhouse in Bayswater, developers see potential for more drastic renewal. Behind the preserved façade, the old house, a victim of too many clumsy alterations, was totally rebuilt as a modern house. The rooms to the front maintain Victorian proportions, yet step further inside and you’ll find a huge wall
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