Little Farden

This block of four estate houses was built in 1913 by Charles Edward Mallows, likely for the Demaine Saunders family. The exterior is roughcast over brick, with decorative fan patterns on the brickwork. Dark weatherboarding covers the apex of the front gables and the aprons of the bay windows. There is oak arcading to the recessed fronts. The roofs are steeply pitched, using handmade red tiles, with bellcast sections and laced valleys. Red brick chimneys are visible internally.

The houses are arranged symmetrically and are set well back from the road, facing south. The rear of the houses is two storeys high, but the roof slopes down to create a single-storey appearance along the front and on the inner sides of two projecting wings. A central passage leads to the rear of the building.

There are rectangular leaded bay windows alternating with moulded oak plank doors featuring iron strap hinges, all sheltered by the front arcade, which has posts and long, curved braces. Four hipped dormers are visible on the front roof slope. Four heavy, square chimneys, with enlarged tops, run along the ridge. The projecting gabled wings have three-light oak casement windows on the first floor, and four-light windows set deeper on the ground floor, all with rectangular leaded glazing and iron opening lights.

Hip-roofed wings extend to the east and west, and a low building sits in the angle at each end. Authentic details include pegged joints in the oak framing of the arcade, cockspur catches on the metal casements, and oak benches beside the entrance doors.

The land in front of the block is divided into four sections with an axial path leading from the road. This path widens into a circular path around an octagonal platform of yellow paving brick, enclosed by an oak picket fence. A cast iron pump is fixed to a post with a spurred spout.