A house built in 1851-2 in a street greatly disrupted by the arrival of the Metropolitan and District Railway in 1864, leading to the compulsory purchase and demolition of eight of its newly-built houses.
Residents in the 20th century included Colonel Spring Robert Rice who had recently returned from the Boer War, where he was credited with designing a simple and inexpensive blockhouse, which was adopted by Lord Kitchener for the protection of his railway communications and saw extensive use. Others were the chairman and managing director of H. P. Truefitt, 'hair specialists' of Old Bond Street and, in the 1930s, zoologist Terence Morrison-Scott. He later became Director of the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum.