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Latitude: 51.4852 / 51°29'6"N
Longitude: -0.1603 / 0°9'37"W
OS Eastings: 527836
OS Northings: 177852
OS Grid: TQ278778
Mapcode National: GBR 8P.6S
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.5XMV
Plus Code: 9C3XFRPQ+3V
Entry Name: More House
Listing Date: 4 November 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1235159
English Heritage Legacy ID: 425736
ID on this website: 101235159
Location: Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW3
County: London
District: Kensington and Chelsea
Electoral Ward/Division: Royal Hospital
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Luke and Christ Church Chelsea
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: House
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
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