Flat in Roald Dahl mews complex is up for sale

AN apartment in the building which inspired one of the country’s most influential children’s writers has gone on the market.

Turnchapel Mews, south-west London, features a number of properties, and one was home to Cardiff-born Roald Dahl during the last few years of his life.

Now a neighbouring apartment within the private mews with a 19th century cobbled courtyard, is on the market for £3.95m with estate agents Russell Simpson.

The home, on the top floor of the mews property, is a 4,077 sq ft apartment with five bedrooms, three bathrooms, kitchen/breakfast room, dining and drawing rooms, a 90ft terrace, and private parking for two cars.

The home, near Clapham Common, also includes a self-contained studio apartment, with a kitchen/dining room, sitting room, shower room and guest toilet, entered via the main entrance hall or through its own private doorway off the cobbles. It could be perfect for older children, elderly relatives, a housekeeper or as a private apartment to rent out.

“When I first set foot in this apartment I felt as if I was walking into a Tardis,” said Jake Russell, director of London estate agents Russell Simpson.

“The incredible sense of space is hard to envisage from the outside.”

Roald Dahl bought a ground floor home in the mews in 1982, after the publication of The BFG.

He lived on Turnchapel Mews, which he called his “little piece of London”, until his death in 1990.

During this period he worked on and completed works including The Witches (1983) and Matilda (1988).