This house dates from c.1829. The first residents included a cashier at the Bank of England, a tobacco manufacturer, and a Lloyd's underwriter and Jamaican plantation owner.
Edward Teschemacher, an analytical chemist, moved in with his wife and children in 1855 - beginning an association of the house with the Teschemacher and Smith families which lasted for over a hundred years. Teschemacher and Smith's laboratory was established here above the stables from the 1860s. Several members of the Smith family, who later lived at the house, were involved in brewing under the company name of Fuller, Smith and Turner at the Griffin Brewery in Chiswick. A later resident was the financier Sir Philip Shelbourne.
A near neighbour from 1908 was the physiologist and anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith; and in 1913 Arsenal Football Club took over six acres of the London College of Divinity across the road.