[1] It was occupied at one time by Alfred Tennyson, and poet Walter de la Mare lived in the same row nearly a hundred years later.

It has five thousand square feet of living space in the main house and a 150-foot (46 m)-long walled garden with a small cottage at the end.

Karen Townshend made slight modifications to the house, removing cloak closets to open up the home and adding modern appliances to the kitchen.

Skelton published the Oxonia Antiqua Restaurata or Antiquities of Oxfordshire in 1823, containing over 170 engravings of scenes and buildings from Oxford.

[10] The poet and writer Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) also occupied a house in the row from 1940 until his death in 1956.

After the death of his wife, the writer took a flat in the top two stories of South End House, Montpelier Row.

De la Mare was officially reprimanded for failing to comply with the blackout during World War II and, on one occasion, the police rowed across the river to warn that his upper windows were a beacon for the enemy.