Dennis Wheatley's Homes

1897 - 1904: 10 Raleigh Gardens, London

No. 10 as it is now

DW’s first home, where he lived until the age of seven.

Bought for DW’s parents by his maternal grandfather William Yeats Baker.

DW described it as ‘A semi-detached in a row of about twenty. The row was screened off from the road by a line of tall trees and stood about a hundred yards back from it. The major part of the area in front of the houses consisted of a broad lawn held in common; but each house had its own small front garden and a catwalk at the back’.

Not much has changed, except for the socio-economic status of the area.

One of his neighbours was his boyhood friend Douglas Sharp, who was later killed in World War I.

References : ‘The Young Man Said’ pages 37–46, 49-53, 140