18 Stafford Terrace

This Kensington townhouse preserves the home of the Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne, decorated in the 1870s and kept largely unchanged by his descendants. It is one of the most complete surviving examples of an Aesthetic Movement interior, crowded with William Morris wallpapers, stained glass, blue-and-white china and framed prints. Sambourne used the house as a studio, and the dense, layered rooms reflect the tastes of an artistic middle-class Victorian family in late nineteenth-century London.