Several houses in West End were mentioned in the early 17th century and by the mid century London merchants were building larger ones.

West End Hall was owned 1796-1807 by the family of the Hon. Richard Walpole, M.P., in 1807 by Lord Walpole, and 1815-89 by John Miles and his wife.

West End Hall was a square red-brick house, built probably at the end of the 17th century and was described by contempories as "of respectable antiquity and standing back behind a rather dilapidated wooden palisade but a row of magnificent elms lines the street before". In the grounds, a fair was held annually on July 26 and two following days.

Publisher John Miles married Ann Chater in 1810; and the couple moved to West End House three years later. They became benefactors of West End. Eustace Hamilton Miles, their grandson, was born there in 1868.

Eustace went to Kings College Cambridge in 1887, and he began a distinguished career in racquets (an early form of squash) and real tennis. Eustace won an amazing number of English and world titles, including a silver medal at the 1908 Olympics in real tennis.

The final onwer of West End Hall, Major-General Sir C. Crauford Fraser, who had entertained the Prince of Wales at West End Hall, died in 1896 and the house and 12 acres were sold for development in 1897. The extensive grounds - containing a lake and thirteen acres of woodland - might have made a perfect park for West Hampstead but the grounds were built over to create Fawley Road, Honeybourne Road and Crediton Hill.