Typical Victorian South London terraced house

Image: © Marathon Taken: 6 Oct 2010

This example is in Harbut Road near Clapham Junction but similar examples can be found across much of inner South London. Stock brick, bay windows and a little decoration around the porch and windows feature, with a space above the downstairs window for a house name to be added. The porch provides a little shelter and the front 'garden' only has enough space for a few plant pots, or more commonly nowadays somewhere to keep the wheelie bins. Finally when these houses were built in the 19th century nobody could imagine how in the future the occupants would have one or more personal means of transportation - hence the streets now are crammed with cars and every space is taken up.

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