Foster Books, a bronze Hogarth with his pug, a greengrocer worth photographing, and Lord Burlington's Palladian villa at the end of the walk.

One of the finest plaster ceilings in London, chosen by a woman in 1623, in a house five minutes from the Piccadilly line that reopened in 2023 and costs nothing to enter.

Soane bought it in 1800 for £4,500, pulled most of it down and rebuilt it as a house that would turn his sons into architects. Ten years later he sold it. What is left is the only house he designed, built and lived in.