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Dennis Severs, an American from California, lived at 18 Folgate Street. He furnished the house with period furniture and lived here until his death in 1999 This old house inspired him to write the life story of a family who could have lived here. He invented a Huguenot family, the Jervis family, who fled from France in 1688. They bought the house in 1724 and here his tale begins. Sounds and scents, creaking floorboards, crackling fires, a hissing kettle on the hob, it is all very real. You take a step back in time. The tour starts in the cellar from where you move on to the kitchen. Then to the parlour, where you can hear the ticking of a clock. You go upstairs to the family room, the smoking room where the men retired after dinner. The tour ends in the withdrawing room, where men and women partook in social talk. During the tour you are asked not to speak so that you can absorb the atmosphere more intensely.

Address: 18 Folgate Street London United Kingdom Phone: + 000.000.0000 Price: mid range