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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.
A 1930s Art Deco house grafted onto the great hall of a medieval royal palace.
HousesArt DecoYou can go inside
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Stephen and Virginia Courtauld took a lease on the ruins of Eltham Palace in 1933, restored Edward IV's fifteenth-century great hall, and built themselves a house next to it that could not be less medieval: a triangular entrance hall lit from a glazed dome, blackbean veneer and marquetry by Rolf Engstromer, a bathroom lined in onyx and gold mosaic, underfloor heating, a centralised vacuum system and a loudspeaker system piping music through the rooms. Their pet lemur, Mah-Jongg, had a heated sleeping quarters with a bamboo mural. The two halves are joined and both are open, which makes it the best place in London to see five hundred years skipped in one doorway.
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Opening hours, as recorded in OpenStreetMap: Apr-Oct Mo-Su 10:00-17:00; Nov-Feb Sa-Su 10:00-16:00; Mar We-Su 10:00-16:00; SH "Various"
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