Dennis Severs House - a strange place. Another such may not. It is not a museum, and it's difficult to determine what it is. Performance? Attraction? The owner called the house that he did, still life drama. This drama - not for everyone (eg children to take better not, they hardly imbued with the idea).

All works in the following way. Guest, arrange a visit in advance (otherwise you can not, a visit should be prepared), suitable to house number 18 on Folgeyt Street. Visitor admits manager Mick Pedroli, explains the rules: you can not take pictures and talk (for disobedience immediately expelled), the phone should be turned off, leave the big bags in the hallway. The visitor need to tune in to the fact that he came to the family home Jervis, French Huguenot weavers who emigrated to England in 1725 (their descendants lived there until 1919). Walk begins at home. Here, ten rooms, all of which are decorated in different ways, because they represent different times and different people. Guests can not explain where someone lives, he can imagine himself in different prompts.

The main impression from this walk - that the owners somewhere nearby, just out of the room. The fire crackling fire, lying on the floor broken cup on the table nedochitannoe letter. Tea is not emptied, fruit and bread is not eaten. The guests are exacerbated feelings in the house cool, half dark (lit candles), can be heard creaking floorboards in the hallway and the ringing of church bells "outside" (windows tightly shuttered to the reality of not interfere), the kitchen smell rosy toast, in the bedroom - flowers. You can and should carefully study all subjects - portraits, clothes, and furniture. Below is clearly wealthy people lived, and on the top floor shows the life of the weavers in the middle of the XIX century - the silk industry in the doldrums, the family poor. Dirty, holes in the ceiling, paint peels from the walls, hanging sloppy clothes.

The motto of the house - "You either see it or not." Usually see. Visitors leave the house Severs completely stunned lessons learned. What happens during a slow walk through the rooms, it is difficult to describe in words, it is to be lived and experienced.

But the Jervis family never existed. All these people, their lives came up with Dennis Severs - American, who loved the history of England. In 1979 he bought the four-story Georgian house of brown brick, built around 1724, and decided to turn it into a special world. Objects that are so carefully decorated house - is not authentic, Severs bought them for a little money for a variety of antique shops.

When Severs found out he had a fatal disease, he was afraid that no one will want to continue this strange game - to keep the house invented non-existent tenants. Severs died in 1999, but the house is still working: manager Mick continues to receive visitors, the fire is burning, enlivens the imagination of visitors Jervis incredible view continues.