Way OT: 12 Grimmauld Place Appearance?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 142135

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maureen <mjf152 at y...> wrote:
>
> bboyminn:
> > I'm wondering how other people pictured 12 Grimmauld Place and
> > Grimmauld Square in general.

Maureen:
> Having lived in North London for a while, not that far north from 
where 
> I pictured Grimmauld Place to be, I imagined it to be similar to 
the 
> streets I walked down every day.  They were a mixture of terraced 
houses 
> (row houses?) and semi detached town houses....  

<snip>

> Some might only be 2 storeys high, others, like the 
> block I lived in, were about 5.
> 
> Use google image search, and have a look for places like Finsbury  
> Park, Kings Cross, Grays Inn Road, Euston and Pentonville Road.  
> For some reason, Imageshack is throwing up errors at me this 
> morning, or I'd post them myself!

Geoff:
Speaking as a long time London resident (although a Sarf Lunnoner), I 
agree that I visualise Grimmauld Place as fading grandeur around 
Euston/Mornington Crescent/Kings Cross about a mile north of 
Trafalgar Square.

We know from canon that it is at least four floors (for our US 
friends, ground floor plus first, second and third floors). I also 
get the feel from the canon description that they are terrace houses.