[3] Nine of the houses in the street are listed Grade II by Historic England[4][5][6][7] and there have been several notable residents, including the author A.

1, designed by the architect Ralph Knott, was built in 1911 for watercolourist Cecil Arthur Hunt (1873–1965) who had abandoned a career as a barrister to become a full-time painter.

[8] Graham Petrie (1859–1940), a British artist, poster designer and author, lived at 1 Mallord Street from about 1914 up to his tragic death.

7, the writer and biographer Enid Moberly Bell (1881–1967), who was the first headmistress at Lady Margaret School in Parsons Green[14] and vice-chair of the Lyceum Club for female artists and writers,[15] set up home with Anne Lupton (1888–1967), the founder and organiser of the London Housing Centre.

[14][17] Anne was the sister of Olive Middleton, née Lupton, great-grandmother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.

9 was the home of Sir Arthur James Irvine (1909–1978), a British barrister and Labour MP, from the late 1930s.

As a child he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems, all written at this house.

21 (Vale Court) in 1963, Stephen Ward (1912–1963), the society osteopath who was one of the central figures in the Profumo affair, committed suicide in a friend's flat.

[4] The English film and stage actor Garry Marsh was recorded living at "Mallord Cottage" in the 1920s and 1930s.

[36] It is a Grade II listed building and has a blue plaque commemorating John.

32 was built in about 1913 for the landscape artist Arthur Croft Mitchell (1872–1956), including a studio at the back, from designs by Charles Hall.