North House and Attached Garden Walls, Gate Piers and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Studio house. 2 related planning applications.

North House and Attached Garden Walls, Gate Piers and Gates

WRENN ID
third-crypt-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 May 1974
Type
Studio house
Address
North House and Attached Garden Walls, Gate Piers and Gates, 69, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU
OS grid reference
TQ 268 843
Coordinates
51.54412, -0.17208
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

North House is a detached studio house built in 1890 by Frederick Waller for the painter, the Hon John Collier. It features red brick construction with terracotta dressings, sill, and floor bands, topped by slated hipped roofs with projecting swept eaves that have a moulded terracotta eaves cornice, dormers, and tall slab chimney-stacks.

The building has three storeys, attics, and basements, with irregular fenestration. The entrance is located to the right, featuring a terracotta round arch flanked by large enriched console brackets that support a broken pediment with a cartouche. There are narrow round-arched windows, one to the left and three to the right, along with a panelled door that has stained glass glazing. Above the entrance, there are stepped narrow windows with ogee heads, stained glass, and enriched terracotta panels that articulate the stairs, with three on each floor. The panels display the monograms "EC" (Ethel Collier), "JC" (John Collier), and the date "1890".

The left-hand bays project in stages, featuring three cambered arch sashes on the ground floor, and on the first floor, there is a large three-light terracotta window encased by pilasters that support a cornice window head with elaborate finials leading to a slate penthouse roof. The central light is round-arched, flanked by a swag frieze. The recessed second floor has a five-light transom and mullion window with a paterae frieze, surmounted by an elaborate three-light dormer with a shell pediment and finials, inscribed with the date 1890. To the left, there is an arcaded ground floor with a subsidiary entrance that supports the studio, which has a glazed roof and six arcaded lights on a stone base with carved panels.

The attached garden wall is made of red brick with a slightly projecting base, and the gate piers feature enriched terracotta friezes with cross gable caps, along with panelled timber gates. John Collier, a portrait painter, lived and worked here until 1934, and he was married to two daughters of Thomas Huxley, while Frederick Waller was married to another daughter of Huxley.

Local climate

North House and Attached Garden Walls, Gate Piers and Gates sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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