Description

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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081414

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy