20 Jeffreys Street

Numbered as 17 Jeffreys Street
1825 July built but empty
1826 July Walter
1827 Jan Walter
1828 Jan Walter
1829 Walter
1831 Jan Walter
1834 Jan empty
1841 Sept George Dickinson
1842 Sept George Dickinson
1844 March W Royle

Re-numbered as 20 Jeffreys Street
18 46 March W Royle
1847 March Harriet Dickinson
1848 Sept Harriet Dickinson
1850 William Morrison
1851 William Morrison
1853 William Morrison
1855 William Morrison
1858 Sarjent
1863 Flindell
1866 Flindell
1871 Cochrane
1875 Cochrane
1880 Cochrane
1881 Walter (23, french polisher) and Esther (23, fancy box maker) Cochrane. Plus Henry (22) and Margaret (22) Richards with Gertrude (3) and Florence (1). Plus boarder Edwin Richards (20). Plus Henry (50, bricklayer) and Jane (46) Hoare with Caroline (10).

1881 Remained numbered as 20 Jeffreys Street
1885 Cochrane

1890s As the area fell into disrepute, it is said that the madam who controlled most of the ladies of easy virtue lived here.

1970s Alan Sharp, screenwriter (including Rob Roy), lived at this address. He was the philandering lover of Beryl Bainbridge who also lived in Kentish Town, and is depicted in her 1975 novel ‘Sweet William’.

1978-present Film journalist Philip Kemp.  This house is unusual in having its upper two stories painted because the blast from a V1 or V2 bomb that fell in 1944 0r 45 badly damaged the brickwork, and the botched repairs were painted over.  The 1st floor balconies were also badly damaged and were removed;  they were still absent when Phil bought the house in 1978.  At that time, luckily, Camden would pay 50% of the cost of restoring original features to listed buildings, and the design (widely used across North London) was still readily available, so the building had two balconies installed for the price of one.