This house was built in c.1844 on part of Box Farm.  The first resident captained clipper schooners involved in foreign trading, carrying cargoes such as tea or gold.  Later tenants included a suite attendant on a royal yacht, and the minister of the nearby Congregational Chapel.  In 1913 it became the home of painter and sculptor Mervyn Lawrence, followed in the 1930s by Evelyn Beale, an important pioneer in engineering physics.

More recent residents have ranged from economist and author Nicholas Davenport, and his artist wife Olga - to the model Eva Herzigova.