A house built in 1851 on the site of the old Kensington workhouse.  The Great Exhibition that year made the area highly fashionable and this cul-de-sac was soon home to professional or independent people able to afford the high rents.  Distinguished artists, such as Richard Westmacott the Younger and Jasper Cropsey, also lived in the street and General Garibaldi breakfasted at a neighbouring house on his visit to London in 1864.  Later residents included civil engineer Sir Benjamin Baker who designed the Forth Bridge, and Admiral Sir Francis McClintock known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

An early resident of this house was the Reverend Teignmouth-Shore, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria and later to Edward VII and George V.  He was present at all the royal events and was held in such high regard by Queen Victoria's daughter, the Empress of Germany, that her son the Kaiser telegraphed Teignmouth-Shore to be present at her deathbed in 1901.  The actress Ambrosine Phillpotts, whose films included Room at the Top and Expresso Bongo, moved here after the Second World War.