This house was built in 1863. An early resident was civil engineer and contractor, Sir John Jackson, who was responsible for the foundations of Tower Bridge in London. He also achieved what most engineers considered impossible: he built the railway over the Andes from Arica in Chile to La Paz in Bolivia.
A resident in the 1920s was David Carnegie, Earl of Northesk, a renowned sportsman and Cresta run record breaker. He had recently married a dancer from Buffalo, but the marriage was short lived, with the young earl's drunken escapades frequently reported in the press. Hylda Wertheimer, famously painted with her family in a series of twelve portraits by John Singer Sargent, was here in the 1930s.
Actress June Whitfield lived in a flat at the house in the 1950s.