A British couple bought a derelict 85-foot, seven-storey Victorian water tower at auction

A British couple bought a derelict 85-foot, seven-storey Victorian water tower at auction An 85-foot Victorian water tower that once supplied an asylum in South London has been turned into a family home after a major multi-million-pound restoration by a British couple. The Grade II-listed structure in Kennington was built in 1877 to supply water to the former Lambeth Workhouse and Infirmary. It was later bought at auction by Leigh Osborne and Graham Voce. According to the Financial Times, the couple took on the abandoned, nine-storey landmark and turned it into a modern home. When Osborne and Voce bought the property, the historic brick tower was in very poor condition. Trees had grown through parts of the brickwork, gaps could be seen in the structure, and the inside was filled with rubbish and hundreds of dead pigeons. The building had no working utilities, while its masonry was up to six feet thick in some places.Turning the Victorian structure into a modern home required a complex restoration and construction project. One of the biggest additions was a modern four-storey glass structure at the base of the tower, known as "the cube". It contains the main open-plan kitchen, dinin...