Clapham mews flat above Roald Dahl's former home is for sale: children's writer wrote Matilda and The Witches while living below the quirky period property

Lockdown is the time for budding novelists to pen their first masterpiece.

Where better to make a start than the mews Roald Dahl lived below when he wrote The Witches and Matilda?

A home is for sale in Turnchapel Mews, a private gated spot with a pretty 19th-century cobbled courtyard in between Clapham Common and Battersea, where the late super-storyteller was inspired to create his tales.

It’s an unusual apartment, spread across the top floor of four terrace houses and the ground floor of one, and covering 4,077sq ft.

Beneath the loft-style ceiling are five bedrooms, three bathrooms and spacious, light-filled dining and drawing rooms. And there is a 90ft terrace.

It is for sale at £3.95 million with Russell Simpson.