Built c1850 in the Italianate style, the street was intended for professional residents: typically barristers, solicitors, civil engineers and doctors. The first family who lived in the house perfectly illustrates rigid Victorian class distinctions. The barrister son, supposedly single and living in the family home, turned out to have a ‘wife’ and four children living in Chelsea. As the daughter of a local cab proprietor, she would not have been considered socially suitable.
