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Under the spell of the Tower House When they owned this 16th- century folly in north London, both Thomas Cromwell and the Duke of Northumberland were executed. Christopher Tookey, now selling the property for pounds 1.85m, hopes to escape in time. Mary Wilson reports
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The octagonal 16th-century drawing-room of The Tower House in
Alwyne Villas has been witness to many an illustrious character -
from Thomas Cromwell, who was given the property in Canonbury, north
London, as a summer house by Henry VIII after the Dissolution of the
Monasteries, to John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and Sir Francis
Bacon.
"Cromwell and Dudley were executed at the time they owned the
house," says the present owner, the musical writer and television and
film critic Christopher Tookey. "Hopefully that won't be my fate
before I leave."
Tookey has lived in The Tower House since ...
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