Brummell's house in Chesterfield Street is also very less-is-more. Very modest. Tall and thin like a pencil box set on its end.
It could only have ever been just a place to sleep, have breakfast, and dress.
It now looks like understated good taste. In his time it must have looked a little dim...
... An almost good address.
Was he aiming for Curzon Street & missed?

Or, as in everything else, was he simply ahead of everyone else?

The Gay thing is interesting too. Not that the modern concept of 'Gay' existed then. Not by a mile.
The truth is unknowable by now - But homosexuality was very 'fashionable' back then.
Only briefly after Edward II and Oscar I has there been a 'problem' being homosexual in England. If you played your cards right, that is.
The secret is to link it to class and then you're fine...
Edward played around below him & had to go. Oscar played around above him & had to go.
George would have been smarter than that.

(Happy Pad?)

Miles.