Linley Sambourne House, 18 Stafford Terrace, W8

Linley Sambourne HouseThis perfectly preserved Victorian townhouse, dating from 1874, was home to cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne. Maintained by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, almost all of its original furniture and fittings are intact, which would make it ideal for a Merchant-Ivory production. And guess what? It features in two. It was the “well-appointed home” of prissy Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis) in A Room With a View, and the London house of Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) in Maurice.

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A Room With A View (1986, dir: James Ivory)
Maurice (1987, dir: James Ivory)

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