15 Cheyne Walk

[3] Notable former residents include the landscape painter Cecil Gordon Lawson, the engraver Henry Thomas Ryall, the Allason family, well known for their political and literary influence, and the Baron and Baroness Courtney of Penwith.

[6] Courtney was a member of Gladstone's second administration from 1880 to 1883 and served as Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons) from 1886 to 1893.

In 1919, the now widowed Lady Courtney hosted the first meeting of the Fight the Famine Committee at 15 Cheyne Walk.

[2] The empty house had subsequently been used as a location for the 2002 film The Gathering Storm, about Winston Churchill's wilderness years.

It was used as the home of Churchill's friend Sir Desmond Morton, played by Jim Broadbent.