A semi-detached house built in c.1853 in an Italianate style. The new district soon attracted wealthy professional people, as well as artists and writers including the poet Robert Browning and John Tenniel, the illustrator of Alice in Wonderland. In the late 1870s the painter Edward Robert Hughes lived at the house. As well as being an accomplished artist himself, Hughes was also studio assistant to the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt, who suffered from glaucoma in old age. He assisted him with the paintings The Light of the World and The Lady of Shalott. A much later resident was India Jane Birley.
