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.
