92-96 Carlton Hill

House and studio, originally built in 1873 by W.J. Miller for George Speedy. Extensively remodelled around 1910 by Sir Edward Guy Dawber for Sir George Frampton. The building was converted into two houses and flatted apartments around 1948. Constructed in stock brick with some rendered sections, featuring wooden small pane casements and hipped tiled roofs with deep overhanging and bracketed eaves.

The south elevation presents a main two-storey range with full-height rectangular bays containing small pane casements on each floor. These flank a central bay with a wooden porch beneath a plain window and a first floor window set under a red brick rounded arch. A central dormer with replaced windows occupies the apex. To the west, connected by a curved parapet wall with red brick coping and a rectangular window above the entrance, stands the former coach house, fully rendered with three first floor rounded windows, advanced and lower than the main range. To the east, similarly linked but with a short wide bay over an outshut, is the studio range. The original pair of tall doors beneath a rounded arch was replaced in the mid-twentieth century by a rectangular window. The north elevation, taller due to the sloped site, displays the main range with a central projecting brick tower and a further advanced gabled range with small pane casements. The remainder of this elevation is brick with a deep rendered band beneath the eaves. The lower studio range to the east includes a chimney, a pair of small pane glazed doors under a red brick segmental relieving arch, and a rectangular window beneath a concrete lintel, with a taller section behind featuring large north-facing windows.

The east wing from around 1910 was reduced in size when converted to a separate residence but retains its north-facing elevation with large windows and the full-height spatial qualities from Frampton's period of occupation. The main range and west wing were converted to flats and a residence and were not inspected in 2004.

In 1910, Sir George Frampton commissioned the transformation of what was then described in The Studio as a "Mid-Victorian suburban house of a commonplace and ugly type" into a residence suited to a contemporary artist. The remodelling replaced Italianate deep eaves brackets and paired windows under rounded arches with wide full-height rectangular bays, a new wooden porch, Lady Frampton's painting studio with an open trussed roof, a marble fireplace designed by George Frampton in the drawing room, and William Morris wallpaper.

The coach house to the west was incorporated into the new design, with a balancing wing added to the east to house the main studio. Described in The Studio in 1910 as "perfectly lighted and of great extent, but with no pretence of adornment...literally a workshop designed by and for the use of a workman," this studio faced north towards then extensive gardens. While much of the design was apparently by Sir George Frampton himself, the drawings bear the signature of Sir Edward Guy Dawber (1861–1938), a notable Edwardian architect from Norfolk who specialised in Arts and Crafts style country houses, mainly in the Midlands and home counties.

Sir George Frampton (1860–1928) was a nationally important sculptor who received a knighthood in 1908, the year he purchased this house and began commissioning its architectural overhaul. He lived here until his death in 1928. He had previously lived and worked at 32 Queen's Grove from 1894 to 1908, where a Blue Plaque was erected in his honour in 1975. Many of Frampton's sculptures are listed, including the Grade II* Peter Pan statue of 1911 in Kensington Gardens and the Grade I Edith Cavell Memorial on St. Martin's Place, both created in the studio at Carlton Hill.

Arthur Fleischmann (1896–1990), born in Bratislava, moved to London in 1948 and took occupation of the studio wing shortly afterwards. His work, commemorated in a centennial exhibition in 1996, encompassed ceramic and Perspex sculptures and bronze architectural pieces, and he is renowned for sculpting four Popes. A Westminster City Council Plaque marks his residence on the studio wing, now numbered 92.