This row of cottages and the adjacent public house, The Plough, in Christchurch Road, East Sheen, date back to the eighteenth century and are located in the Christchurch Road conservation area of Richmond-upon-Thames to the north of Richmond Park. They are across the road from Percy Lodge, originally a hunting lodge for the Duke of Northumberland. Showing from left to right, numbers 54-56 are listed locally as Buildings of Townscape Merit; numbers 50-52 were Grade II listed in 1983, listing number 1080839; numbers 44-48 were also Grade II listed in 1983, listing number 1358082; The Plough is listed locally. In addition to two men with coats, flat caps and a bicycle chatting on the roadside, a Bedford Dormobile, a Hillman Super Minx convertible, and a Morris Traveller can also be seen parked in the road.
