The area largely belonged to the Gough-Calthorpe family which presided over sensitive development aimed at the city's affluent middle and upper classes.

Working with his father John Jones Bateman,[6] and over the course of a career spent largely in Birmingham and the Cotswolds, he developed a substantial practice.

Peter Davey considers his printing works, on Cornwall Street in Birmingham, to be "one of the most daring designs for an industrial building of the period.

[11][12] The style caught hold in the English suburbs; Peter Davey, in his study Arts and Crafts Architecture, notes that "the architecture of Voysey, Baillie Scott, Parker and early Lutyens lives on in endless copies of hips and gables, half-timbering and harling, mullions and leaded bay windows".

Describing it as one of Bateman's "most important houses, and perhaps his most progressive", Foster notes the uncommon, double-pile, design and the many, more traditional, features including a billiard room, inglenook fireplaces and the almost obligatory, inscribed homilies, in this case, East, West, Home's Best.