More House

More House is an artist's studio house built in 1882 by the Gloucester architect Frederick Waller for his brother-in-law, the Hon. John Collier. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with red brick dressings and features a tiled roof with a pedimented dormer and a large Flemish gable with finials on the right. It has three storeys, an attic, and a basement, and is designed in the Queen Anne style with two bays.

The left bay includes a large projecting pedimented porch with a gauged brick round-arched opening, keystone, and pilasters, leading to double leaf panelled doors and a fanlight. The upper floors have three narrow windows each; the first floor windows have gauged red brick segmental heads, while the second floor features square heads with small shaped rubbed brick aprons. The right bay has a prominent stone bay studio window supported by large stone brackets, flanking narrow ground floor windows and ball finials. The Venetian type glazing is complemented by a second-floor four-light window with curved top corners and enriched mullions beneath a rubbed brick Doric frieze with enriched metopes. The gable window features a lugged brick architrave, a panelled apron, and an enriched segmental pediment.

Inside, there is a Gothic detailed staircase and a dining room with an elaborate fire surround made from pieces of 16th-century wood carving. The drawing room retains an original 18th-century style fire surround and plasterwork, along with an imported rococo overmantel. The studio, which runs from the front to the back of the house, includes an original chimneypiece, overmantle, and grate with Delft type tiles set in a large moulded arch alcove. A curious "little studio," a loggia within the room, is accessed by steps and connects to what was once the changing room for professional models. Collier was known as a society portraitist but is now best remembered for his paintings of psychological dramas.