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Lennox Street is in the middle of the original Hawthorn Village, east of Barton Street or the creek, to Elgin Street. It was cut up into 16 blocks stretching through to Denham Street and Burwood Road. Less than half were bought at the sale in June 1852 by people who remained in the area, paying prices between £75 and £205 each for their blocks. The cheapest block was bought Major Charles Newman, who later also acquired this block almost opposite, both with houses by the beginning of the 1860s. He was a pioneer squatter of the Warrandyte Andersons Creek area, but lived in Lennox Street circa 1857-1859. A local celebrity in this house during the 1860s was Henry Augustus Severn, an assayist, who gave lectures on galvanism, electricity, spectrum analysis and gases.