This mid-Victorian terrace was built on the old glebe lands owned by the vicars of St. Mary Abbots since 1260.  A resident of the house was a survivor of the Titanic.  On that fateful night in 1912  her daughter took charge of the tiller in one of the lifeboats, steering it through the sea strewn with icebergs and debris, and did a great deal of the rowing.  The street has been the home of many artists and writers, including Percy Wyndham Lewis and Max Beerbohm, and the 20th century sculptor Georg Ehrlich lived in the house.  Physicist James Clerk Maxwell conducted his experiments in a garret a few doors down in the 1860s, to the great curiosity of passers-by.