Situated at the foot of Thompson Street in Mt Cook, Wellington, this building which started life as a rather grand family home built in the 1920s and was added to in 1934, now serves as the office for an architectural practice.
The house possesses many noteworthy features associated with the Arts and Crafts style: decorative wooden battens, patterned brickwork and fishtail roofing tiles at the entrances, ornate floor tiles, leadlight widows in a number of the rooms, a large stained glass window in the stairwell and an appreciation for hand crafted design throughout.
Within New Zealand, the architect James Chapman-Taylor was a leading practitioner of the arts and crafts style of domestic architecture, which originated in England in reaction to impersonal industrialised production.