Why Big Families Choose a Townhouse Over a Row of Hotel Rooms

The failure mode of the three-generation holiday is well known: the family scattered along a corridor, negotiating breakfast windows. A vertical Victorian townhouse solves it structurally — early-rising grandparents, napping toddlers and nocturnal teenagers each get a floor’s worth of distance.

The togetherness happens where it should: one sitting room, one long oak table, and a town outside built for every walking speed.