A house built in 1778 and used for 200 years as Lambeth Rectory.  The first rectors were also chaplains to the Archbishop of Canterbury at nearby Lambeth Palace, and included a brother of the poet William Wordsworth and a future Earl of Chichester.  The house was severely damaged in the Second World War and was rebuilt without its original top storey.  In the 1960s Lambeth was a very mixed area - the rector at the time noted that his immediate neighbours on one side were the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Reith, the head of the BBC, whilst across the road was an estate where lived nine of the Great Train Robbers.