This is the house on which Lichfield Towers is based. It’s...

This is the house on which Lichfield Towers is based. It’s actually Chateau Miranda in Belgium, but I’ve transplanted it to Highgate, London. Here’s an excerpt from The Last Necromancer*, when Charlie first sets eyes on the place where her captors take her:

I gaped at the mansion. It sat atop a low rise like a crow with wings spread out in either direction. The building was a mad collection of shapes. Tall, narrow pinnacles shot from the centers of square towers positioned between the triangular gables and rectangular chimneys. But it was the central tower that caught my attention. At almost twice the height of the rest of the house, it was an imposing entrance. Beneath the three cones at its crown was a small window then nothing but dark stone plunging down to the large arched door. Rapunzel wouldn’t look out of place in that high window, but it would take more than a lifetime for her hair to grow long enough to reach the ground.

I recoiled and suppressed a shiver. Sir watched me with those all-seeing eyes of his. His expression remained cool, detached, unreadable. It was unlikely he cared what I thought about our destination, unless he could use that fear against me.

“Is this Bedlam?” I asked. I could well imagine the mansion was the infamous insane asylum. It looked bleak enough to house those miserable, mad people. People like me.

Pretty snorted. “An apt assessment, but no.”

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