44, 46 and 48, Hainault Road

A range of three cottages dates from the mid to late 19th century. They are constructed of stock brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The cottages are aligned approximately northwest-southeast, facing southwest, and are arranged in an “H” shape, comprising a central range and two crosswings. There are two axial chimney stacks in the middle range, along with one in the outside wall of each crosswing. The cottages are single-storey with attics. The front features two original 19th-century boarded doors, and one 20th-century door with a diamond pane (at number 46). Originally, the windows in the central range were cast iron lattice, consisting of one fixed light and one casement, while those in the crosswings had two fixed lights and one casement. Some have since been replaced with 20th-century wooden and metal casements. On the ground floor, there are six windows, with three casements having been replaced; all the fixed lights remain. The upper floor has two windows on each crosswing, plus four more in gabled dormers, with only one original cast iron fixed light surviving (at number 46). An open, single-pitched tiled canopy extends across the front between the crosswings, supported by six posts with arched braces; a course of dog-tooth brickwork sits immediately above the canopy. The survival of a significant number of the original cast iron lattice windows is particularly noteworthy. Numbers 40 and 44 to 54 (even) form a group.