6 and 8, Mallord Street

Nos. 6 and 8 Mallord Street is a house built between 1912 and 1913 by architect W.D. Caröe for Percy Morris. The building is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings, featuring a stone cornice, plinth, and an architrave surrounding the central ground floor garage. The roof is not visible, but there are tall chimney stacks.

The house has three storeys and an attic, with the entrance located to the right. A staircase leads through the first and second storeys, each containing four rooms connected by a cross-passage to the servants' stairs, which rise from the rear of the garage to the attic. The main facade is symmetrical except for the door. The ground floor is rusticated and has three sash windows with gauged brick heads. In the center, there is a double-doored garage framed by a stone architrave with volute mouldings. To the right of the garage is a panelled house door beneath a coved doorcase. The upper floors feature opening casement windows with leaded lights; the central windows are recessed at the first-floor level between red brick panels and further set back at the second-floor level behind a projecting sill band and volutes. A modillion eaves cornice is set back over this central section, and there are casement dormers with leaded lights and tiled cheeks.

Inside, the turned-baluster staircase rises through three flights. The first-floor drawing room boasts fine panelling and cornices, along with a fireplace adorned with Delft tiles and a moulded fire surround featuring an arched centerpiece. This room opens into a more simply panelled dining room, which also has a fireplace. Behind these rooms are a tiled kitchen and bathroom, the latter retaining its original fittings. The second floor contains many original cupboards and some fireplaces, while original fireplaces with coloured tiled surrounds are also found in the attic. The entire interior preserves its original cornices, mouldings, and fittings to an exceptional degree.

This building is noted as a rare and complete surviving domestic work by W.D. Caröe, contributing to a strong group of adjacent listed houses in an area that was developed for artists and aesthetes between 1909 and 1915.