This house was built in 1721 and, like much of the rest of the street, was first occupied by a weaver. The owner of the property was a popular and controversial doctor, probably responsible for introducing the condom to London as a means to prevent 'the secret disease'. A minister of a local Huguenot church was a later resident, followed by several people in the beer trade when the house was owned by a partner of Truman's. From the mid-19th century increasing numbers of Jewish refugees moved to Spitalfields and the house became multi-occupied with a family on each floor. During the First World War it was home to Rabbi Abraham Kook, one of the most influential rabbis of the 20th century, who subsequently became the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate for Palestine.
