Two houses built c.1825 in the new fashionable Tyburnia, possibly on the exact site of the old Tyburn gallows.  Residents included the son of General Lawrence, who died defending the Residency at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, and later Edmond Carton de Wiart, the Belgian delegate at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.  After the houses had been converted to flats in the late 1950s, Paul Robeson, the American singer, actor and Civil Rights activist lived here.  In the 1970s a nearby house was the notorious base of Victor Lownes, who managed the London Playboy Club.  He hosted Bacchanalian parties where the guest list included Bill Cosby, Tony Curtis and Warren Beatty.