This house was first built in 1850 on the site of market gardens. An early resident was Ernest Jones, one of the most prominent figures of the Chartist movement, who knew both Marx and Engels personally. In 1886 the house and its neighbour were combined and rebuilt as a coach-house and stables for the brand new Kensington Court development directly behind. The building had space for two carriages, stabling for eight horses and living quarters for a coachman and grooms. Sophisticated features included a lift for the carriages. For many years it housed the carriages, then the cars, of Louis Montagu 2nd Baron Swaythling. After 1929 the house was converted back to private residential use. Other residents in the street included J.T. Grein, the influential impresario and drama critic, and film producers Lord Birkett and Robert Erskine. Psychotherapist Stephen Sebag-Montefiore ran his practice from his basement nearby - inspiring a 1965 television sketch by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, both of whom he treated.
