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.

This street, built from about 1722, is the most complete of the 18th century streets in this part of Spitalfields, its survival the result of a vigorous preservation campaign in 1977.

The early residents of the house varied from a gin distiller to a coach herald painter.  Inevitably, there were several weavers.  For most of the 19th century the house was a girls' school, before becoming a laundry at the turn of the 20th.  The old weavers' garret was later used by Jewish tailors.

By the early 1970s, several of the historic houses in the street were empty and derelict, and under threat of demolition.  A group of high-class squatters - members of the newly-formed Spitalfields Trust - staged a round-the-clock guard at two of the houses, and successfully held off the wrecking ball.

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.

The older parts of this house pre-date 1780.  One of the first known residents was Tomson Warner, a brass founder - his firm was later responsible for the casting of the first bell for the clock tower in the Houses of Parliament (Big Ben).  His near neighbour was Dr. Richard Price, whose house became an important meeting place for people such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine; other American politicians such as Ambassador John Quincy Adams, who later became the second president of the United States; British politicians like William Pitt the Elder; and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft who ran a school nearby.

Other occupants of this house included author and radical bookseller William Hone, whose satirical pamphlets helped define the public reaction to events such as the Peterloo massacre and the Queen Caroline Affair.  Later in the 19th century it became a Home and School for Destitute Jewish Children.

Soon after it was built in 1721, this house was bought by an MP and director of the Bank of England.  His long tenure was followed by occupants who included a wealthy merchant and hosier, a Congregational pastor, several architects, as well as barristers and solicitors.  From 1917 the house became an Ada Lewis hostel for working women, before being taken by architects Hobden and Porri, who designed a number of Art Deco buildings before the Second World War.  A. G. Porri was partly responsible for the iconic Carreras Cigarette Factory in 1928.

Others in the street included novelist and poet George Meredith, decadent poet Algernon Swinburne, writer and publisher E. V. Lucas, Dorothy L. Sayers and Leonard Woolf. 

The first resident of this house, built in the early 1880s, was Cornelius Saunders, a jeweller and silversmith.  His father established the firm now known as Saunders, Shepherd and Co, which was responsible for the gold bracelet worn by Lady Diana Spencer at her wedding to Prince Charles.

The street has been the home of many eminent residents including the author of Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons, poet W. H. Auden, composer Benjamin Britten, and the artists Sir William Coldstream and Gustave Girardot.  Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson lived nearby, as did several with espionage connections.  These included Arnold Deutsch, the NKVD agent and controller of the Cambridge Five, the Kuczynski spy family, photographer Edith Tudor-Hart, and Melita Norwood.

The first owner of this house, built in 1829, held the prestigious appointment of Harpist to Queen Adelaide.  Subsequent residents included a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria; a renowned botanist; Viscount Drumlanrig (later 8th Marquess of Queensberry); Lord Ellenborough; diplomat the Hon. Henry Edwardes; Sir Henry Chamberlain; and Gilbert Edgar, who was chairman of the jewellers H. Samuel.

In 1946 the house was acquired by Lord and Lady Mountbatten.  A frequent guest was Noel Coward, and Prince Philip used it as his London base before his marriage to Princess Elizabeth in November 1947.  BBC footage records him leaving the house for the wedding.

Built in 1858 on the Phillimore Estate, this house was first occupied by a dentist and cupper (or practitioner of blood-letting).  Subsequent residents included H.M. Chief Inspector of Factories, a landscape painter and the architect Edward I'Anson, who with his father was responsible for many of the commercial buildings in the City of London.  In 1915 the house was taken by the Catholic Church of Our Lady of Victories for their presbytery, and was occupied by priests for the next twenty years.

In 1945 the house and its four immediate neighbours were requisitioned for use as a 'halfway' hostel for more than a decade.  After modernisation, residents included the judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse - at that time a junior prosecuting counsel at the trial of the Moors murderers - and a member of the Hambro banking family.

The first residents of this house, in 1888, were Captain the Hon. Frederick Howard and his wife Constance, an author.  About five years after moving in, Lady Constance started divorce proceedings.  Her husband's response was to shoot himself in the smoking room, and his young mistress followed suit a day later.  The press quickly connected the two suicides and the events became a minor scandal.  Other residents included General Renny 'Saviour of the Punjab', and Henry Vernet, chairman of Bensons merchant bank.

The house was requisitioned by the Council for twenty years after the Second World War, before becoming a Girls' Friendly Society hostel until the mid-1990s.

This house forms part of a terrace built in the early 1880s in the red brick Queen Anne style.  Until the outbreak of the First World War, the street was at the heart of a thriving avant-garde community of artists, writers and bohemians in Chelsea.  Here lived and worked artists such as the flamboyant James McNeill Whistler, Augustus John and John Singer Sargent.  A few doors away at Oscar Wilde's house, the greatest artistic and literary figures of the day were entertained in the buttercup-yellow drawing room with its ceiling painted by Whistler and Edwin Godwin.  It was there, in June 1894, that the Marquess of Queensberry called on Wilde, unannounced, and threatened to 'thrash' him.

Residents of this house in the 1950s included Czech designer Miroslav Smutny, and Bohuslav Brouk, a biologist, philosopher and writer.  Later the mountaineer Eric Shipton lived in the basement flat.