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M338 Studio-house for Harold Squire, Chelsea, London

Address: 49, Glebe Place, Chelsea, London SW3 5JE
Date: 1920–1
Client: Harold Squire
Authorship:

(Mackintosh)

1920: 8 January: Harold Squire instructs Mackintosh 'to prepare sketch plans of proposed Studio and dwelling in Glebe Place'. 1
12–26 January: Squire considers initial sketch plans and asks Mackintosh 'to proceed with necessary drawings'. 2
23 March: Plans given to quantity surveyor. 3
12 May–1 June: After consultation with his sister, Mrs Evelyn Claude, Squire asks Mackintosh to reduce the cost of the studio to £6000. 4
12–14 June: Squire asks for a one-storey building costing £4000. 5
15–16 June: One-storey scheme costing £4353 approved by Squire. 6
23 June: Permission received from Borough Surveyor to demolish old buildings on site. 7
25 June: 'Work started on Squire's studio.' 8
5 July: Work halted until purchase of site is finalised. 9
16 September: Mackintosh records in his diary that plans have been approved by London County Council. 10
27 September: Work has started on clearing site. 11
7 October: Plans approved by Special (Building Control) Committee of London County Council. 12
20 October: Sheet of plans, sections and elevations stamped by Holloway Brothers, builders. 13
20–24 November: Squire asks Mackintosh to add an upper storey to the studio, at a cost of about £650. 14
8 December: Drawing of roof-top addition approved by William E. Clifton, Surveyor to the Glebe of Chelsea. 15

1921: Autumn: Squire first appears in the Voters' Register at this address, indicating that the building was completed earlier the same year. 16

1924: Upper floor added to front block by Ruscoe Bros & Co., builders, not to Mackintosh's design. 17

Notes:

1: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

2: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

3: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

4: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

5: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

6: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

7: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

8: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

9: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

10: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

11: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

12: London Metropolitan Archives: LCC/MIN/12576.

13: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: GLAHA 41655 (M338-023).

14: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

15: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: GLAHA 41659 (M338-028).

16: Alan Crawford, 'Lost and found: architectural projects after Glasgow', in Pamela Robertson, ed., C. R. Mackintosh: The Chelsea Years, 1915–1923, exhibition catalogue, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 1994, p. 10 and n. 29.

17: London, Kensington Central Library: original drainage plan for 49 Glebe Place, BE/A1054.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.