2 South Audley Street, Mayfair, W1

When Oscar Wilde was arrested in April 1895 for gross indecency, following the collapse of his ill-advised libel action against the Marquis of Queensberry, he was staying at the Cadogan Hotel in South Kensington.

Although the hotel still survives, it stands on a busy and modernised street. For Brian Gilbert’s 1998 biopic Wilde, the house at 2 South Audley Street was dressed to provide a photogenically ornate ‘Cadogan’.

Trivia: during the 1970s, the house was the office of Bond producer Cubby Broccoli’s Eon Productions.

Wilde (1998, dir: Brian Gilbert)