35, Steeles Road

No. 35 Steeles Road is a detached house and studio built in 1875 by T Batterbury and WF Huxley for the history and portrait painter, James Linton, who later became Sir James Linton and served as the first President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. The building is constructed of red brick with a large tiled mansard roof and dormers.

The exterior presents two main storeys, an attic, and a semi-basement, with four windows visible from the front. To the left is a round-arched doorway with a fanlight and a panelled door, approached by twelve steps. The doorway is flanked by brick pilasters supporting a brick pediment, with a plain frieze that continues around the building as a band at the first-floor level. To the right is a large window with small panes, slightly projecting and featuring a brick pediment flanked by narrow, vertically set, small-pane windows with gauged brick heads. The first floor has gauged brick flat arches to recessed sash windows with brick aprons; three are above the ground-floor windows, and smaller windows are situated above the entrance pediment. A deep, stuccoed, coved eaves cornice is present. Two large gabled dormers extend from the eaves level into the top slope of the mansard roof; one has a single light above the entrance, and the other has a two-light window with a small-paned oculus above the pedimented window, both with window guards of turned wooden balusters. A further dormer is located at the top of the mansard. On the return walls, a chimney stack rises through the eaves cornice. The interior was not inspected.