This house was built in the 1840s on the Ladbroke estate. An early resident was Dr. John Doran, an Irish author and journalist, whose wide circle of friends included writers, such as William Makepeace Thackeray and Douglas Jerrold, and the painter William Powell Frith. Other residents of the house included a merchant, a tea broker, a brewer and an auctioneer - the latter being burgled days after moving in.
From the 1930s for many years it was home to Blanche Ward, an early advocate and teacher of Christian Science.