Wit and whim go hand in hand at Mark Sainsbury and Michael Benyan’s ‘brilliantly quirky’ Georgian town house in a cobbled corner of Clerkenwell. Standing opposite the original Zetter (see previous entry), it was devised as the eclectic home of eccentric Great-Aunt Wilhelmina, and it brims with oddities collected on her travels. The lounge, with velvet sofas and winged armchairs, displays a stag’s head, oil paintings and taxidermied birds, all under the watchful eye of a parasol-wielding stuffed cat. Pleasing touches fill the equally eccentric bedrooms, some with a four-poster, one with a gaudy fairground reclamation headboard: lots of books, hot-water bottles in hand-knitted covers; a drench shower, REN toiletries in the bathroom. Wilhelmina and her companion, Uncle Seymour, lay out a feast for afternoon tea: truffled sausage roll and devilled eggs alongside puffy scones, ruffles of vanilla choux, and finger sandwiches. In the apothecary-style bar, a resident mixologist shakes heady pre-dinner gin cocktails, before guests venture into a neighbourhood with many dining options. Breakfast is served in the lounge.