George Lister Sutcliffe was, by all accounts, a talented and conscientious architect, and a much liked and admired man.
 

He began his career in Yorkshire working with the firm Sutcliffe and Sutcliffe (no relation), before moving to London where he commenced independent practice.

He was later employed by Co-Partnership Tenants Ltd., as architect to the new garden suburb developments at Hampstead, at Brentham, Ealing and at Wavertree near Liverpool. He designed hundreds of houses of varying styles, as well as some more distinctive projects including Brentham’s Club House. For the Co-Partners he designed houses at Midholm, Eastholm and Westholm, Creswick Walk and Addison Way – some 400 houses in total, as well as 1 and 2 South Square, the latter of which being home to Henrietta Barnett between 1915-1936. The red brick Tudor style Meadway Court was his grandest contribution to the Suburb.

A practical designer, Sutcliffe wrote several books for architects on the subject of house construction and internal services.
 

Sutcliffe died in 1915 at the age of just 51. His career was cut short at a time when, during the First World War building work was winding down. He had been slated to join a government committee on the rebuilding of Belgium once the war ended. Sutcliffe’s scheme for Midholm, Eastholm and Westholm was well underway; one obituary stated that ‘his great desire during illness was to be able to complete a scheme already begun at Hampstead’.