Hornton Street, Kensington. The front-entrance gate house and garden wall leading to a three-storey building, the Red House. The house, originally known as Hornton Lodge, was built by Stephen Bird, a well-known local builder and brick maker, in 1835, for his own family. William Conway, art critic and explorer, lived in the house at the turn of the twentieth century. Another notable resident, who lived here in 1907-18, was Herbert Hoover, who later became President of the United States. The Red House no longer exists; after World War II it was purchased by the Council together with the neighbouring Abbey House, Niddry Lodge and Hornton Cottage and demolished in 1972 to make space for the new Town Hall, after having served as Council offices for over twenty years.