More House

The following building shall be added: TQ 2777 NE TITE STREET

249-1/63/10006 No 52 (More House) GV II

Artist's studio house. 1882 by Gloucester architect Frederick Waller for his brother-in-law the Hon. John Collier. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings. Tiled roof with pedimented dormer and large Flemish gable with finials to right. 3 storeys, attic and basement. 2 bays. Queen Anne style. Left hand bay with large projecting pedimented porch having a gauged brick round-arched opening with keystone and pilasters; double leaf panelled doors and fanlight. Upper floors with 3 narrow windows each, 1st floor having gauged red brick segmental heads, 2nd with square heads and small shaped rubbed brick aprons. Right hand bay has large stone bay studio window supported on large stone brackets, which flank narrow ground floor windows, and ball finials; Venetian type glazing, 2nd floor 4- light window has curved top corners and enrichment to mullions beneath rubbed brick Doric frieze with enriched metopes. Gable window with lugged brick architrave, panelled apron and enriched segmental pediment. Interior: Gothic detailed staircase. Dining room with elaborate fire surround made from pieces of C16 wood carving. Drawing room has original C18 style fire-surround and plasterwork; imported rococo overmantel. Studio runs from front to back of house with original chimneypiece, overmantle and grate with cheecks of Delft type tiles set in a large moulded arch alcove; curious "little studio", a loggia within the room, reached by steps and communicating with what was once the changing room for professional models. Collier was a society portraitist but now best remembered as a painter of psychological dramas.

Listing NGR: TQ2783377851