No Londoner, when faced with an empty plot at the end of their historic Victorian mews, has ever said, “What we need next door is a 6,000-square-foot house with an indoor pool.”
And yet, voilà.
How did it happen? How did a hefty brick house with a 15-foot basement end up on this corner site blocks from Bloomsbury Square and the British Museum? The long answer, says the structure’s Canadian-born, London-based architect Jamie Fobert, is this: “The neighbours were upset about a proposed apartment block, so when this came along, they embraced it.”
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