The Independent gets a look inside an interesting Finchatton [warning, classical muzak] development in Eaton Square. It's a mixture of Victorian grandeur and very 21st Century glass-and-metal modernism... manifest in a giant rear extension and basement (housing cinema, swimming pool, and bedrooms for staff and security). What I don't understand is exactly how a Grade II-listed property (with historical importance... it was formerly the home of Lord Napier... although he couldn't have spent much time there) got the nod for such a radical extension. It's hard to imagine how the character of the building isn't altered by attaching what looks like a space ship to it. There are pictures here.

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