575 Wandsworth Road

The Kenyan-born poet and artist Khadambi Asalache bought this rundown early nineteenth-century terrace, which had been squatted, and spent 25 years cutting hand-carved fretwork into its interiors from the basement kitchen to the top floor. The carving is fixed to the walls and doors of the house itself, which is why the National Trust admits small booked groups rather than open visitors. Ticketed, and not step-free.

Address

575 Wandsworth Road, Lambeth, London, SW8 3JD

Admission fee charged

Yes

Wheelchair accessible

No

Website

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/575-wandsworth-road#Overview

Category: Culture & History

Tags: artist, fretwork, asalache, national-trust, lambeth

Coordinates: 51.4697018, -0.1406549

Part of London homes of artists and writers kept as museums

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