 It became a grade II listed building in 1994.The house may have been designed by Charles Barry Jr. (1823-1900) (son of Sir Charles Barry who worked on the Houses of Parliament), possibly as a rectory or parsonage to accompany his Gothic style St Peter's Church on the opposite other side of Lordship Lane.It was built in 1873 by Charles Drake of the Patent Concrete Building Company, and it may have been his own house.