The first resident of this house, built in 1791, was an army officer who had served in Michigan during the whole of the American War of Independence. From the mid-19th century the house was a part-commercial address, being variously used by a spring truss manufacturer, a tea and coffee dealer, milliners, house decorators and the Institution for Catholic servants.
It was an antique shop after the First World War, before becoming consecutively a ladies' hairdressers and a sushi restaurant - before reverting to its original usage as a private house in 2005.