The Studio

The Studio is a studio house completed in 1939, designed by Taylor and Green. It is constructed of rendered brick, featuring original rough rendering in dark red on the front and sides, and grey on the rear, with smooth rendering on the architraves and corners. The building has a flat roof and three storeys, including a recessed roof storey with roof terrace bays. The central entrance is recessed and features original yellow tiles on the soffit and an original glazed door.

On the ground floor, there are strip windows on either side of the entrance, with the left window being an early alteration by Taylor and Green that replaced garage doors. The ground floor fenestration is unified by a rendered architrave. The first floor has three rectangular windows with architraves and casements, while the second floor features a horizontal wall-to-wall strip window with an architrave and sliding plate glass windows. All the windows are original, except for those in the former garage.

The building has a glazed parapet with obscured glass and a timber framework outlining the roof terrace. The open ceiling in the centre bay is formed with metal bars, and there are glazed walls to the southeast and southwest. The interior is remarkably intact, retaining original fitted cupboards, shelves, seating, lighting, heating pipes, mirrors, and picture rails. The layout includes a hallway, kitchen, and playroom (formerly the garage) on the ground floor, bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor, and an uninterrupted studio cum lounge and dining area on the second floor, which is glazed to the northeast and northwest. All storeys are connected by a spiral staircase in a semicircular projection at the rear. The building was originally constructed as a home and studio for the artist Roger Pettiward, and it was featured in the Architectural Review in September 1940.