{"id":36778,"date":"2016-12-02T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/jg-ballards-house-the-perfect-place-to-crash\/"},"modified":"2016-12-02T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T10:12:16","slug":"jg-ballards-house-the-perfect-place-to-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/jg-ballards-house-the-perfect-place-to-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"JG Ballard\u2019s house \u2013 the perfect place to crash"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nJG Ballard\u2019s Shepperton home is up for sale or you can rent Ted Hughes\u2019s Bloomsbury love nest. How do the prices compare with other authors\u2019 homes?These are high times for house-hunters of a literary bent. The three-bedroom semi in Shepperton, Surrey, where JG Ballard lived for nearly 50 years has just gone on sale for a relatively modest \u00a3475,000, while those stuck in the rental market can console themselves with the Bloomsbury house where Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath first got together. Hughes, who rued the \u201cunlit and unlovely lavatory\u201d in the poem \u201c18 Rugby Street\u201d might be surprised to find a price tag of \u00a35,850 a month on a property which he described as a stage-set for \u201cthe love struggle in all its acts and scenes\u201d. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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