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Streets, squares, mews and lanes. The most charming streetscapes in London. Some well known, some hidden gems.
Georgian and Victorian houses whose front gardens are on the other side of the road, against the Thames.
Terraces
The arrangement is the thing. The houses stand on the landward side and their gardens sit across the roadway on the riverbank, so the street runs between a front door and its own lawn, and everyone crosses the road to sit outside. It was a working shore of fishermen and boatbuilders before the wealthy took it over, and most of the houses are older than they look: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fronts put on earlier buildings rather than rebuilt.
Walpole House is the largest and has Tudor work behind its later face. Barbara Villiers, Charles II's mistress, lived in it, and it was later a boys' school that William Makepeace Thackeray attended - he put the street into Vanity Fair. Strawberry House, Morton House and the pair of Island House and Norfolk House fill out the row. At spring tides the Thames comes over the wall and stands in the road, which is the price of the gardens being where they are.
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Data is compiled from public sources including OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL. Hours change often, so check before making a journey.