My Pounds 4m Penthouse Still has Room at the Top ; Many Expensive Rooftop Homes Have Been Getting Smaller in Recent

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Rory Maw's flat in Vogan's Mill, Bermondsey, South London, is something of a period piece. Not because it heaves with ancient beams and smells of antiquity, but because its vast, 3,000sq ft, glass-walled open space dates from the golden age of the penthouse.

Not only that, it was built by the developer that did so much to bring penthouses to London Docklands in the Eighties before going bust spectacularly: Rosehaugh.

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My Pounds 4m Penthouse Still has Room at the Top ; Many Expensive Rooftop Homes Have Been Getting Smaller in Recent

'I had been living on the street for nine years, in a flat whose roof garden looked up at the penthouse on Vogan's Mill,' says Rory, 43, a banker. 'When I heard it was for sale in 2004, I realised it could be tur...

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