PERIOD DRAMA
Aug 27, 2021
4 minutes
Photography James Balston
Words
Ellie Tennant
When Laura Jane Clark and her husband first stepped inside the 1783 Glasgow townhouse that they’ve just spent three and a half years renovating from top to bottom, it was in a terrible state. The couple had finished doing up a tenement flat in Glasgow and were searching for a new project – ideally “something derelict”. That’s certainly what they got.
“It had been empty for four years and probably only had about a year of neglect left before it collapsed,” recalls Clark. “The whole place was covered in mould. It was so damp and there was dry rot like I’ve never seen before – huge
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