Kensington

Don't panic this roof is missing deliberately. I went searching for an artistic blip tonight but inspiration wasn't coming. Probably due to tiredness at the end of the day.

I did however look at a development project in Kensington today. This is the top of one of those late Georgian/ early Victorian terraced houses. It has a typical "London roof" The parapet at the front make the roof look flat from the road. It is in fact an upside down ridge. The rafters slope downwards from the two side walls to meet those long planks of wood running front to back. Those long planks form the sides of a gutter that sends the rainwater out of that hole at the back.

That pipe on the left is relatively modern. These houses wouldn't have had bathrooms or inside toilets when they were built.

The price of land is so high that this developer has just bought the air space above these flats to build.