This crescent was laid out in the 1850s on the site of the old Hippodrome race course - the grand architecture of its houses representing the full-on confident splendour of the Victorian age.
Residents of the house have included an architect, an army officer, a church minister and a banker. From the late 1930s the area started to go downhill, and after the Second World War the house was bought by a Jewish refugee from Vienna who let it out in bedsits until the 1970s. A property developer then let it become derelict, at which time it was the location of a Dick Emery film.