North House And Attached Garden Walls, Gate Piers And Gates

CAMDEN

TQ2684SE ETON AVENUE 798-1/61/410 (South side) 14/05/74 No.69 North House and attached garden walls, gate piers and gates

GV II

Detached studio house. 1890. By Frederick Waller. For the painter, the Hon John Collier. Red brick with terracotta dressings and sill and floor bands. Slated hipped roofs with projecting swept eaves having a moulded terracotta eaves cornice, dormers and tall slab chimney-stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and basements. Irregular fenestration. Entrance to right with terracotta round arch flanked by large enriched console brackets supporting a broken pediment with cartouche; flanked by narrow round-arched windows, 1 to left, 3 to right. Panelled door with stained glass glazing. Above, stepped narrow windows with ogee heads, stained glass and set in enriched terracotta panels articulate the stairs, 3 to each floor; monograms in panels "EC" (Ethel Collier), "JC" (John Collier) and date "1890". Left hand bays project in stages with 3 cambered arch sashes to ground floor, 1st floor with large 3-light terracotta window encased by pilasters supporting a cornice window head with elaborate finials to slate penthouse roof; round-arched central light and flanking swag frieze. Recessed 2nd floor has 5-light transom and mullion window with paterae frieze surmounted by elaborate 3-light dormer with shell pediment and finials, inscribed 1890. To left, arcaded ground floor with subsidiary entrance supports studio with glazed roof and 6 arcaded lights on a stone base with carved panels. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached red brick garden wall with slightly projecting base, gate piers with enriched terracotta friezes to cross gable caps and panelled timber gates. HISTORICAL NOTE: John Collier, portrait painter, successively married 2 daughters of Thomas Huxley; Frederick Waller was the husband of another Huxley daughter. Collier lived and worked here until 1934.

Listing NGR: TQ2685284386