North House And Attached Garden Walls, Gate Piers And Gates

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.