Kensington Palace Gardens, a spacious private avenue over half a mile in length, was laid out in the 1840's on the site of the old kitchen gardens of Kensington Palace. No. 25 was one of a number of plots leased by John Marriot Blashfield of Blackfriars, inventor of a type of ceramic material for tesselated and inlaid floors. The first of Blashfield's houses, no. 8, was designed by Owen Jones, who seems to have expected to act as architect for other houses as well, but his plans so far exceeded Blashfield's budget as to imperil the whole development. In the event, no. 25 was designed as an Italianate villa with a campanile tower by T.H.Wyatt and D.Brandon in 1844 and #10,000 had already been spent on it when Blashfield went bankrupt shortly afterwards. It was eventually leased to Benjamin B. Greene 'landowner and merchant' in 1852, the first occupant, for whom Crace presumably made this design. The house was demolished due to extensive dry-rot in 1947 and the site, with that of no. 26, is now occupied by the Czechoslovakian Embassy