Built in 1852, for James Wilson, solicitor and clerk to the Company of Cutlers (SCC1 998). When built the villa was provided with 12 acres of parkland much of which survives to the east as Chelsea Park. The present polygon shows the house and its formal gardens to the south in which many original features and plants survive. The property was purchased by Alderman Robert Styring in 1902 who later handed the property over to the city in 1925 as a memorial to his wife. The J.G. Graves Trust adapted the house as a residential home in the 1960s. Formerly piecemeal enclosure of probable open fields (all info from SCC 1998).