Built in c.1722, this was home to several people connected with the Houses of Parliament nearby.  It was also popular lodgings for curates, one of whom was the father of Field Marshal 'Monty' Montgomery.

Viscount Milner bought the house in 1914, describing it as 'just about as big as a band box and rather in the same style'.  As one of Lloyd George's closest advisers, Milner held several meetings here during the First World War, a pattern followed by the later political residents.  These included several MPs, Victor Montagu (formerly Lord Sandwich) and Alastair McAlpine.  The house was used for John Major's campaign headquarters during the succession struggle immediately after Margaret Thatcher's fall in November 1990.  It was also used by her as a base for the first few months after her resignation, as well as becoming the nerve centre of Tory anti-Maastricht operations in 1993.

The first resident of this house, built in c.1721, was Coulson Fellowes, a lawyer and MP.  A contemporary account describes him as 'one of the best politicians in this kingdom' who was 'said to be (and very probably is) immensely rich'.  A later resident who died in 1794 left a detailed inventory of the contents, which helps to create a vivid picture of the house at the time.

A solicitor, who had lived and worked here for more than thirty years, was murdered nearby in 1856.  A property dispute with his sister's deranged nephew, who considered unfairly that he had been cheated, resulted in the nephew stalking him and eventually shooting him on his way to work.  The murderer - described as a 'low-sized deformed man, about 5ft 3in high, humpbacked' - was found guilty but insane.  He was sent to Bethlem Hospital where he was photographed on arrival.

A later resident, from 1897, was the writer and publisher E. V. Lucas.

This house was built in 1929 for Rear-Admiral Tufton Beamish MP by the architect John Bernard Mendham.  Erected on the site of a modest Georgian house, it is a mix of Arts and Crafts and classical design, with many nautical influences in the detail-work.  This whole stretch of the road was rebuilt likewise in the late 1920s and early 30s, mostly for wealthy MPs such as Robert Hudson and Wilfred Ashley.

As it turned out, it was just nine years before the house became a commercial address in 1938.  It was returned to residential use in 2004.

This villa and its neighbours were built in the mid-1840s to a new suburban ideal, having a wider frontage with fewer floors and well-proportioned rooms.  Early residents included a 'stuff' (or woven fabrics) merchant and a Bond Street tailor.  Lieutenant-General Gordon Pritchard, who lived here in the 1890s, had seen action in the Indian Mutiny, the Chinese War and the Abyssinian Campaign.

Hugo and Flora Ames, both writers, were resident from 1914.  They had married without first divorcing their respective spouses - and had recently served six months for bigamy.  A later resident in the 1970s was Fitzroy Somerset, the 5th Lord Raglan, a descendant of the famed one-armed Crimean war commander at the Battle of Balaclava.

A house built in c.1704, originally without the third and fourth mansard storeys.  Early residents included the 6th Viscount Falkland, an ardent Jacobite; and Sir William Gordon, who was a government commissioner and member of the Squadrone, a Scottish political party.

From the mid-19th century the property became a commercial address.  It housed the St. John's House Training Institution for Nurses from 1852, six of whom went out to the Crimea with Florence Nightingale.  It was later the scene of a protest when two members of the so-called 'Progressive Party' locked themselves into the offices of the Women's Liberal Federation here.

For much of the 20th century it was used by the Armed Forces charity, The Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association.  A secret internal passageway was constructed in 1926, linking the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service at Broadway Buildings with the neighbouring property to this one.  It is believed that both houses were used by SIS and that some of the rooms were interconnected.

This house was built in c.1862 on the Gunter estate in Brompton.  It was occupied from 1868 by a City architect, Alfred Allen, who lived here for some twenty-five years with his wife and civil engineer son.  Unbeknownst to his parents, however, the son (supposedly a bachelor) had a wife and children tucked away in Battersea - rigid Victorian class distinctions and the importance of respectability made this a not uncommon set-up.

Later residents included a Paymaster-in-Chief of the Royal Navy, a retired admiral, and Sir Ernest Birch, who had served as the eighth British Resident of Perak from 1904 to 1911.  

Multi-occupied after the Second World War, from 1967 the house became a hostel for nuns of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, before its eventual return to private use.

This house dates from c.1829.  The first residents included a cashier at the Bank of England, a tobacco manufacturer, and a Lloyd's underwriter and Jamaican plantation owner.

Edward Teschemacher, an analytical chemist, moved in with his wife and children in 1855 - beginning an association of the house with the Teschemacher and Smith families which lasted for over a hundred years.  Teschemacher and Smith's laboratory was established here above the stables from the 1860s.  Several members of the Smith family, who later lived at the house, were involved in brewing under the company name of Fuller, Smith and Turner at the Griffin Brewery in Chiswick.  A later resident was the financier Sir Philip Shelbourne.

A near neighbour from 1908 was the physiologist and anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith; and in 1913 Arsenal Football Club took over six acres of the London College of Divinity across the road.

Although much altered and extended, this house was originally built in 1817 by a bottle merchant, and remained in the same family ownership for more than 150 years.  19th century tenants included a young army captain who was killed in the Waikoto Campaign in New Zealand in 1864.

The biographer Michael Holroyd spent the first two years of his life here in the 1930s, when his father was a director of Lalique glass.  With the rise of Nazism, a Jewish friend came to stay after successfully smuggling his life savings out of Berlin concealed in a huge glass elephant table-lamp.  Having picked up the consignment at the docks, he tried to break the beast open in the taxi, alerting the curiosity of the Jewish cab driver who produced a big spanner and smashed the elephant to bits, revealing the hoard.  Cheers all round: his future was secure.

Neighbours included E. M. Forster, screenwriter and director Roland Pertwee and his Doctor Who son Jon, and author and artist Mervyn Peake.

This corner terrace house of c.1722 accommodated a wide range of people in its first 180 years, many of them connected to the Houses of Parliament or school nearby.

20th century residents included the journalist Charles Geake, Arts and Crafts architect Detmar Blow, and businessman and Conservative MP Edward Fielden.  It was later the home of publisher and designer Brian Batsford and, inevitably, numerous politicians.  One of these, Richard Sharples, resigned his seat in 1972 to take up the position of Governor of Bermuda.  He was shot dead by assassins the following year.

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.