This house was built in 1905 for Walter Runciman MP on the footprint of an early Georgian property. An extraordinary mixture of people has lived here, including Count Zinzendorf, a bishop of the Moravian church; a porter; a house painter; and the 9th Duke of Marlborough. For a few years during the 18th century it was a boarding house for Westminster School boys. In the 1860s Lord Arthur Pelham-Clinton lodged at the house - he was heavily implicated in the notorious scandal involving transvestites Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton, aka 'Fanny and Stella'.
The street similarly fluctuated socially with a female refuge next door from the 1850s housing prostitutes willing to reform. In 1903 most of the original properties were demolished to make way for smart new townhouses, offices and government buildings.