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Beautiful, yes, but tall houses don't sell A lack of space and bedrooms on four floors are putting people off traditional London homes, writes Ross Clark

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20060129
Author:Ross Clark

To some visitors, they are London itself: the streets and squares of tall, narrow townhouses, rising six or seven storeys above the fug of diesel.

Daniel Defoe spoke for many when, in the 1720s he wrote of: "New squares, and new streets rising up every day to such a prodigy of buildings, that nothing in the world does, or ever did, equal it except old Rome.'' But there is one group of people who are not so enamoured with the classic London house: foreigners. When they see a house in Cadogan Square, Brook Street or Portland Place they don't see elegant proportions and fine detailing sprung ...

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