[3] Flanked by leafy side streets with many late 19th-century dwellings, it is home to a wide range of restaurants, two pubs, shops, offices and professional and medical suites.

It was named after Sir William Hutt, a British MP who was heavily involved in colonial South Australia, being one of the original Colonisation Commissioners.

[4] Located within the Adelaide city centre, Hutt street is occupied by numerous heritage buildings of architectural significance with many dating to the nineteenth century.

It was constructed there in 1934 as a special-purpose building with a capacity of 50 beds, to which the original "Private Hospital, Wakefield Street", founded about 1883–84, moved its activities.

In 1880 John Cox Bray, a legal practitioner who became Premier of South Australia, bought it and had the two-room-deep frontage of the building, as it appears today, constructed.

The National Trust of South Australia has described the addition as "typical of the period, as Adelaide's economy was booming at the time.

[15] The house's heritage statement includes: "it is one of the largest and most prominent 19th century park lands mansions for which Adelaide has been renowned".

Since 2000, fundraising events have been held in the grounds to support education, heritage, sporting and welfare organisations in South Australia.