The outside may not look like anything special, but the inside is full of modernist design features. The interior uses natural materials, geometric shapes and furniture designed by Goldfinger himself, including the desk, bookshelves and door handles.

Now owned by the National Trust and open as a museum – numbers 1 and 3 are still privately owned – the houses caused controversy in the community when they were built, necessitating the demolition of old cottages on the site. Author and Hampstead resident Ian Fleming was one of the objectors and went on to use the Goldfinger name in one of his James Bond books.

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