Thornton Place, Clapham Common North Side
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Thornton Place, Clapham Common North Side
Image: © Marathon Taken: 12 Oct 2011
One of the reasons Clapham Common has survived is through its popularity with the wealthy and influential as a place to reside and hence protect from development. Many of their houses dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries still surround the common. The Georgian unity of Clapham Common North Side is to quote Pevsner "broken with typically mid Victorian assertiveness by .. The Cedars, two identical five-storey blocks flanking the entrance to Cedars Road." This is the western one of the pair, seen from the common. It has recently been converted into '32 luxury apartments' and called Thornton Place. The chimneys are particularly impressive.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.461432
Longitude
-0.14953