2 Willow Road
Designed, built, and lived in by the architect Erno Goldfinger, this is a speculative development of three houses completed in 1939. It replaced. Collection of small cottages which once sat on the site. The removal of the homes was bitterly fought by the author Ian Fleming, who lived nearby. Goldfinger was known to be a rather ardent modernist, arrogant and dismissive of others who disagreed with him. It is rumored that Fleming named his villain Goldfinger in revenge for the loss of the housing and Goldfinger’s temperament.