This was rebuilt in 1927 on the site of an early 19th century house developed in the grounds of the curiously named Tart Hall, a Jacobean mansion belonging to Lord Stafford. The first residents of the street followed a great range of crafts, trades and labouring occupations. By about 1920 the area had become more fashionable - neighbours included the cookery writer Elizabeth David, who spent her childhood here; and Lady Idina Sackville, later a prominent member of the Happy Valley set in Kenya. Other residents included George Pitt-Rivers, a wealthy anthropologist and Eugenics expert, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London during WW2 as a Mosleyite Nazi sympathiser. Randolph Churchill lived directly opposite.
