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Newton Faulkner says goodbye to his £1m duplex flat — and his recording studio

T wenty years ago the singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner walked into a double-height warehouse apartment next to the Limehouse Cut in Poplar, east London, clapped his hands and listened. 'This room sounds really good,' he remembers thinking. At the time, Faulkner (full name Sam Newton Battenberg Faulkner) was renting a small flat in London Bridge, but his first three singles 'went totally, insanely, unfathomably well', he says, so he thought it wise to get on to the property ladder. He was in the middle of an intense touring schedule, his life measured in cities and soundchecks, and needed a place to anchor him — a home where he could make music. That flat, once part of the 1860s Spratt's dog biscuit factory and converted into loft-style apartments in 1985, has been just that, and so much more than he expected.