Georgian Spitalfields
1720�s brick house in Spitalfields, East London
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Olwen Evans describes viewing her east London house for the first time as a revelation. �Even though it was blandly decorated from top- to- toe, fully carpeted in cream wool and seemed to have plasma televisions above all the fireplaces, a bit like a modern hotel, the house itself was a gem.� It was Olwen�s elder daughter Amelia who found the sale particulars on a web site and alerted her mother immediately as Georgian houses in the area so rarely come onto the open market. �My younger daughter Alice was leaving home for University so it seemed an ideal time for a complete change of scene from my Victorian villa in Surrey. I knew this part of London a bit and was working near St Pauls at the time, aware of the battles to save the area from decades of developer�s plans. I have always loved Georgian houses for their scale and beauty so the idea of moving into one of these precious houses in the area appealed enormously,� says Olwen.
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