[1] Although his early work was Gothic, Edis later became a proponent of the Queen Anne style of baroque revival architecture.

[1][8] Combining principles of Aestheticism with the Sanitary Movement, Edis delivered a lecture during the 1884 International Health Exhibition calling for more artistic designs within hygienic interior objects.

[10][11] He was the designer of the parish hall and parsonage for St Philip's Church, Buckingham Palace Road (1892) and the British pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893).

[citation needed] He built a studio on Church Street, Sheringham, for his nieces the photographers Olive and Katharine Edis.

It was their first studio and had a glass roof to allow in natural daylight which became an important aspect of their trademark style.