Description

HUGHENDEN HAMPDEN ROAD
SU 89 NE
(West Side)
4/130
Denner Hill Studio

II GV

Sculptor's, now photographer's studio. c1900 for R W Colton. Roughcast render,
painted white; plain tile roof. Tall building of 3 wide bays, lower at rear with -
roof sweeping down as catslide. In Arts and Crafts style having angle buttresses
and raked buttresses to returns which have applied timber framing to gables; board
doors and small-pane wooden casements, openings segmental-arched. Front has central
bay boarded with sliding doors. 2 windows and gable louvre to each return. Central
door to rear; the central bay of roof with clear sheeting. Interior not inspected,
but reported to have tracks on which to roll statues around. Colton (1867-1921) is
a noted architect of the period. He was President of the Royal Society of British
Sculptors and was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy between 1907 and 1912.
S Beattie, The New Sculpture (1983, Yale), p.241. S Nairne and N Serota (eds),
British Sculpture in the C20, p.250. A and C Black, Who Was Who, Vol 2, 1911-28,
4th Edition (London).

Listing NGR: SU8657798885

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26496200

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