Folgate Street is a ravishing experience if for no other reason than to experience the exposed brickwork, giving you a sense of what things might have been like if you had walked round London a hundred years or so ago.
You can also view some of London’s earliest surviving terraces built in the early eighteenth century by French Huegenot silk weavers, who fled religious persecution in the Low Countries. Many of the houses have continental style shutters, and are very tall providing the weavers with the space to set up their spinning wheels and receive as much sunlight as possible.
At number 18 Folgate Street is a real London treasure, but you’ll have to do a bit of work if you want to know what.
