This villa and its neighbours were built in the mid-1840s to a new suburban ideal, having a wider frontage with fewer floors and well-proportioned rooms.  Early residents included a 'stuff' (or woven fabrics) merchant and a Bond Street tailor.  Lieutenant-General Gordon Pritchard, who lived here in the 1890s, had seen action in the Indian Mutiny, the Chinese War and the Abyssinian Campaign.

Hugo and Flora Ames, both writers, were resident from 1914.  They had married without first divorcing their respective spouses - and had recently served six months for bigamy.  A later resident in the 1970s was Fitzroy Somerset, the 5th Lord Raglan, a descendant of the famed one-armed Crimean war commander at the Battle of Balaclava.