My penthouse - in the country; HIGH FLYERS: Peter Randles at Bank House, Falmouth, left, and Debbie Jackson- Rastelli, right, at Oxford are letting their flats STREAMLINE: Justin Stannard spent [pounds sterling]115,000 upgrading his penthouse in a former Victorian mill near Bury, above left, to give it the wow factor.

From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | Date: March 16, 2008 | Copyright information

Byline: Fred Redwood

If a classic Georgian country house is the Rolls-Royce of the propertyworld, then a penthouse is the Ferrari Testarossa.

Perched like plate-glass eyries on the top of the most prestigious apartmentblocks, they are monuments to minimalism and open-plan opulence that only thetruly rich can afford.

Yet now penthouses have spread from the cities to the suburbs, the spa townsand the holiday resorts. You can even find some in the restored buildings ofpost-industrial wastelands.

Throughout the country, canny developers are capitalising on the cachet ...

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