Yes go and knock. The residents are mostly Ukrainian but they are all nice people and have offered to let me take photos but I've not had the time. The staircase and landing is original and very nice.
I'm guessing the windows were blocked up because of the "daylight tax" that basically was a way of working out the tax of a building. The more windows it had the more (poll) tax it paid. To get around this wealthy property owners simply bricked up the windows.
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