Denner Hill Studio

Denner Hill Studio is a sculptor's studio, now used as a photographer's studio, built around 1900 for R W Colton. The building features roughcast render painted white and has a plain tile roof. It is a tall structure with three wide bays, lower at the rear where the roof slopes down in a catslide style. Designed in the Arts and Crafts style, it includes angle buttresses and raked buttresses on the returns, which have applied timber framing on the gables. The doors are boarded, and the windows are small-pane wooden casements with segmental-arched openings. The front has a central bay that is boarded with sliding doors, and there are two windows and a gable louvre on each return. A central door leads to the rear, and the central bay of the roof has clear sheeting. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is reported to have tracks for rolling statues around. R W Colton, who lived from 1867 to 1921, was a notable architect of the period, serving as President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and as Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy from 1907 to 1912.