The home in Highgate I'd want to live in.

Perched atop Highgate Hill, Cromwell Avenue is surely the most elegant of eyries.

Our hostess, an opera-loving architect who’s spent her career manifesting the ambitions of others, a few years ago, here at her home in Cromwell Avenue she decided to realise her own ambitions.She indulged her passion for preserving the best of Victorian architecture – she quite literally wrote the book on it – and Cromwell Avenue is her masterpiece.

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This house is design perfected: it is, also, very much a home, and a home I’d want to live in. 

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The master bedroom. 

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A children's room which might have come straight from Peter Pan, remember to pack the fairy dust...

http://onefinestay.com/cromwellavenue