Building record 1415100000 - Denner Hill Studio, Hampden Road

Grade II. 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) (B1).