London's Fake Houses

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在伦敦“富人区”一条静谧的街道上,有两栋看上去与周围建筑没什么差异的房子。然而走近一看你会发现,这两栋房子竟然是假的,不仅门上没有把手,窗户也是画上去的,这究竟是怎么回事? 

This is Leinster Gardens, an upmarket residential road near Hyde Park in Central London.

But though it may seem like an ordinary London street, it's hiding a rather unusual secret.

These two houses behind me, numbers 23 and 24, they're fake.

They're not real buildings, they're just a facade, but with no actual house behind them.

But someone's gone to extraordinary lengths to make them look real.

They perfectly match their neighbors, to the extent that you most likely wouldn't even notice if you were to walk past.

The only telltale signs are the lack of door handles or letterboxes.

It's not even wooden; that's rock-solid.

And the 18 windows are all simply painted on, without any glass.

So why exactly are there a pair of fake houses right in the middle of this seemingly normal London road?

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