A house built c.1826 and home for many years to a wax chandler before it became a lodging house. Later residents included a wealthy tailor in the 1920s who fatally took poison mistaking it for mouthwash; and Sir John Arnold, a senior divorce and family judge.
In the 1890s Rosa Lewis ran a maison de convenience at a nearby house, where the Prince of Wales and his friends could take their mistresses. Other neighbours were Lord Snowdon, who was born in the street; Whitehall mandarin and novelist C.P. Snow; the actor Christopher Lee; Sir John Rennie, head of MI6; and Sir Terence Conran.