More House
MORE HOUSE, 52, TITE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235159
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- More House
- Statutory Address:
- MORE HOUSE, 52, TITE STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-10-03
- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235159
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- More House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORE HOUSE, 52, TITE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MORE HOUSE, 52, TITE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 27836 77851
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425736
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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