London’s famous residents: See how Freud, Holmes, Dickens lived

Seeing the homes of eccentric and prominent figures makes for a different type of visit when you are in Britain’s capital.

He craved more, more and even more stuff. “I think he went a bit loopy after his wife died,” whispered the woman standing next to me at Sir John Soane’s Museum, as we gazed at antiquities dangling from ceilings and perched on the rafters.