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Buildings where the building is the reason to go: the inside-out, the Art Deco, the concrete, and the ones that make no sense at all until somebody explains them.
Two houses in a Bayswater terrace with nothing behind them: painted windows, no rooms, no floors.
OdditiesVictorian & EdwardianFree
The Metropolitan Railway was cut through here in the 1860s, and because its trains were steam trains they needed an open stretch to let off smoke. That meant demolishing two houses out of a smart stucco terrace and leaving a hole in it, which nobody would accept. So the fronts were rebuilt: five feet of facade, the same cornice and balustraded balconies as the neighbours, and windows painted grey-blue on the render because there is no room behind them to put glass in. From the pavement the terrace is unbroken. Stand back far enough and the two blank houses give themselves away. Transport for London still maintains them, and the trains still run in the open behind.
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