Homes & Antiques

STABLE MADE

Although the coach house in south-west London that Alix Bateman now calls home was built during Georgian times, it stands on the site of the original Manor House of Clapham.

‘Old plans show that our house is actually in the position of the kitchen for the great house,’ she explains. But by 1825 this section of the original building had changed use, becoming part of a stable yard until it was eventually given to the church next door in 1903, along with

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