The Studio is a Grade II listed building in the Haringey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1985. Studio. 1 related planning application.
The Studio
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Haringey
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1985
- Type
- Studio
- Address
- The Studio, Duke's Head Yard N6
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 873
- Coordinates
- 51.57076, -0.14556
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
The Studio sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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