The Grove, Highgate

The line of The Grove follows the eastern boundary of an estate which at the beginning of the 17th century belonged to the Warner family, several members of which held prominent positions in the City of London.

[1] The Estate's Tudor mansion was Dorchester House, described in 1620 as The Blewhouse,[2] which stood in what is now the courtyard of Witanhurst, the palatial mansion on Highgate West Hill whose entrance marks the southern end of The Grove.

[3] South of the covered reservoir small remnants of the village green survive, whilst on the north east side of the street there are two modest apartment buildings, Old Well House and Fitzroy Lodge.

[4] No.1: Actress Gladys Cooper and her husband, publisher Neville Pearson;[2] Journalist Patrick Sergeant[5] No.2: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin;[2] musician Sting and his wife, actress Trudie Styler[6] No.3: Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge; playwright J.

B. Priestley;[2] model Kate Moss[7] No.4: Diplomat and managing editor of The Times, Sir Campbell Stuart, GCMG, KBE, KStJ;[8] Executive Cob Stenham and daughters, the eldest of whom is playwright Polly Stenham; TV chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author, Jamie Oliver No.5: Appeal judge Sir Edward Fry and children: artist Roger, social reformer Joan, illustrator Agnes and prison reformer Margery;[2] musician George Michael[6] No.6: Musician Annie Lennox and her then-husband, film producer Uri Fruchtmann[6] No.7: Manager of the Marine Insurance Co., Robert John Lodge, who was also treasurer of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (1880-1893) No.8: Actors Robert Donat and Renée Asherson[9] No.9: Politician Beresford Craddock;[10] Spy Anthony Blunt; industrialist John Sutton Nettlefold[2] Fitzroy Lodge: Scottish Comedian Stanley Baxter