View of Hanover House and The Portland Arms, St John's Wood High Street, Westminster. Hanover House, built c1906, is a typical, grand Edwardian mansion block, five storeys over basement, with attic storey. It is of substantial scale, in red brick with a strong pattern of white window dressings and a distinctive gabled roofscape. In this view, the block was newly built; a sign advertises 'Family Flats' and 'Artists Flats' with an estate agent's board for Wright & Co.. At left, The Portland Arms, a public house, built in the 1830s, rebuilt mid-nineteenth century with huge, ornate Victorian lamps. A sign above reads: 'City of London Brewery Co.'. In this charming early nineteenth-century scene, a little girl runs after a woman, three women and two girls are walking in front of Hanover House, and a gaggle of school boys are walking together. Two men, one with a bicycle, are walking in the foreground.