Henry Hughes & Hughes was founded in Streatham in 1927. The first two Partners were Henry Hughes and Sidney Rich who had trained together as young men at Rhys Roberts in the City in the 1920's. They practiced at different addresses in Streatham High Road and Streatham Hill from 1927 until 1991 when the firm moved to its present offices. They were joined in 1948 by Henry's son, Dennis, the father of two of the present Partners, Mark Hughes and Benedict Hughes. Dennis Hughes retired in 1990.

Since the firm was founded over three quarters of a Century ago its strengths have been in giving the best legal advice to businesses and families in Streatham, South London and a wider area combined with a personal interest in and sympathy with Clients problems.

Henry Hughes & Hughes practice from the Beehive Coffee Tavern, a Listed (Grade II*) 19th Century building towards the southern end of Streatham High Road overlooking Streatham Common. The prominent redbrick building was built in 1878 with funds provided by local supporters of the temperance movement to provide somewhere where working men could go for wholesome meals and non-alcoholic beverages. It included a reading room, a billiard room on the first floor a dormitory on the second floor where apprentices of the adjacent factory lived and a lecture hall at the rear where the workmen could attend improving talks by visiting speakers.

The land on which it was built was donated by Ebenezer Cow inventor of Cow Gum (familiar to generations of art students). Unfortunately the workmen preferred the attractions of the adjacent Pied Bull Public House and the Coffee Tavern did not prosper. Although an eating house continued to operate on the ground floor of the building into the early 20th Century the rest of the building was absorbed into the adjacent factory of PB Cow & Co. Limited and by the 1930's the ground floor was being used for the same purposes.

In the 1980's the building was saved from demolition after a campaign by local residents and was refurbished by Sainsburys as part of the planning deal for their supermarket on the adjacent factory site. It was superfluous to Sainsburys requirements and in 1990 Henry Hughes & Hughes acquired it.