Many is the time that I have walked past Worship Street (originally Hog Lane) in the heart of Shoreditch without realising that the plain and undemonstrative group of buildings on its north side are the work of Philip Webb, friend of William Morris and one of the greatest Arts-and-Crafts architects – indeed one of the progenitors of the arts-and-crafts movement. He designed them for Lieutenant-Colonel William Gillum, with shops in the front, workshops to the rear and flats above:-