A house built c.1828 and part of Harrow School's development of its land in the area.  The seclusion given by such spacious houses, in easy carriage distance of the West End, quickly gave St. John's Wood a slightly risque reputation with mistresses and courtesans living here.  But seclusion was also a requirement for writers and artists, many of whom began settling in this street and nearby.  These included Sir Edwin Landseer who lived in a large house nearby, his brother Thomas who lived in the street, and Alfred and Lionel Constable who were directly next door.

Emily Davies lived in this house for twenty-five years.  She was a feminist and pioneering campaigner for women's education - her crowning achievement being the foundation of Girton College Cambridge.

Built in c.1862 on the exclusive Phillimore Estate, this house started life as a small boarding school for girls - mainly from naval, military and colonial families.  Two pupils from the early 1870s were daughters of the highly decorated General William Trevor, known as the 'Famous Indian Fighter' and involved in the capture of Rangoon.  After the Second World War the Director of the British Museum, Sir Thomas Downing Kendrick, lived here.  He achieved recognition for Victorian art, generally derided at the time, with assistance from John Betjeman and John Piper - but is now partly remembered for his over-zealous 'cleaning' of museum objects.

Many artists, writers and musicians have lived nearby, including Sir William Gilbert, Linley Sambourne, Kenneth Grahame and Freddie Mercury.

 Grade II listed house in Westminster, thought to date from c1725.  A description of the street in 1708, as well as continuous occupancy, would suggest an earlier date of c1700.  Members of Parliament, high-ranking men in the Exchequer, Army officers, dramatists and people with minor titles all lived in the street during its early history.  One wayward teenager ran away to sea in 1746, and provided the inspiration for Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.

In the 19th century there was a social downhill slide from the 18th century professional single-family homes to multi-occupancy houses, and just behind was an area described by Dickens as ‘The Devil’s Acre’, a haven for debtors and felons.

A house built c.1737 and one of Mayfair's oldest surviving houses.  It was originally at the less fashionable end of the street and was occupied by various tradesmen before becoming a lodging house for the last half of the 19th century.  The house was enlarged in 1915 and subsequent residents included a Broadway producer and an American banker involved in the collapse of Farrow's Bank in 1920.  Thousands of people lost every penny they had, amongst them large numbers of clergymen.  In the early 1930s Peter Watson lived here - he became one of the European art market's wealthiest patrons and the man who helped launch the careers of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.  He was also a co-founder of the magazine Horizon and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.  He met a squalid end - not in this house - probably murdered in his bath by a male lover who stood to inherit the bulk of his fortune and his extensive art collection.

This quiet street tucked away behind the commercial buildings of the Strand is still lined with many of its original late 17th century houses and was once home to an astonishing array of famous people. Samuel Pepys lived here when he was Secretary to the Admiralty; and Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens and Samuel Taylor Coleridge all lodged here.  Others ranged from a daughter of Oliver Cromwell to Sir Humphrey Davy who conducted experiments in a basement workshop.  Some of the numerous artists were Charles Calvert, William Etty, Clarkson Stanfield and Arthur Rackham.

Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau lodged at this house in 1766.  It was later the office of J.T. Grein, the Dutch impresario who helped establish the modern theatre in London, and the home of numerous actors.  In 1939 it became for 50 years the offices of formidable literary agent A.D. Peters.  Two of his authors - E.M. Delafield and Alec Waugh - were billeted at the house during World War 2 and were to be found on the roofs of the Adelphi equipped with tin hats and stirrup-pumps, acting as air wardens.

Early residents of this house built in the mid-1840s included prolific inventor James Boydell and orientalist William Burckhardt Barker, who died supervising a land transport depot on the Black Sea during the Crimean War.  From the early 1960s the terrace and crescent behind became a celebrated nerve-centre for liberal intellectuals, artists, writers and journalists.  These included Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, A.J. Ayer, Claire Tomalin, Ursula Vaughan Williams and jazz musician George Melly. Terence Conran, Judi Dench, documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings and writer V.S. Pritchett have all lived in the terrace, and children's illustrator Aliki Brandenberg in the house for many years.