Rankin - one of the country's most gifted photographers (and, more recently, an engaging TV documentary maker) - is, according to the Telegraph - a little over-exposed to London property.
The Independent talks to novelist Charlotte Mendelson about her Dartmouth Park home. Where? It's near Highgate; it's leafy and nice. Mendelson - who's a proper novelist - talks the property talk with surprising fluency:
We'd made offers on various houses in Tufnell Park, which is nearby, but our hearts hadn't really been in them. They were mostly compromises, or they were horribly overdeveloped – lots of downlighters and strategically placed tiny shower-rooms.
That's what they say... every novelist has one estate agent in them.
It's the continuing battle to save Little Green Street... a Kentish Town cobbled street with 300 years of history, a handful of families and immortality thanks to the Kinks' Dead End Street video (click the link above). According to this, actor Tom Conti led protesters this week as they lay down in the street to block site traffic.
Actually, it's Little Green Street in Kentish Town - a 300-year-old cobbled street, home to 24 adults and children and - if developers get their way - a gated community of 20 three-storey houses, ten apartments and underground parking. The Kinks' Dave Davies has signed a petition urging the council to refuse permission to drive heavy-duty vehicles down the little cobbled road. Little Green Street can be seen below - in the video to the Kinks' Dead End Street. Other celebrity campaigners are said to include Bill Nighy, Tom Conti and Ken Loach.
Apparently, you'll be pleased by the "quality of finishing to the general fabric". It's on Raveley Street, it's listed at £950,000, has four bedrooms, a landscaped rear garden and a set of particulars written by somebody struggling with the English language (sounds suspiciously Italian to us). Honestly, the particulars are almost as strange as the house's history.
UPDATE - I've had a number of emails asking why I didn't publish a link to the particulars. The answer is... I forgot. Here you go.
