102, Orchard Road

This is a house built in 1936 by M.B. Crowley and C.G. Kemp for the Hopkins family. Constructed of yellow stock brick in a stretcher bond pattern, with cavity walls and a blue Staffordshire brick plinth, it has a monopitch roof covered in blue-grey Staffordshire pantiles. The design is in the International Modern Style and follows a rectangular plan. The house has two storeys. The principal entrance is on the right-hand side of the ground floor, featuring a simple brick surround with a projecting flat hood on a brick pier to a later glazed door. A row of six square metal casements, boxed out in wooden frames and separated by brick mullions, runs along the ground floor, followed by a row of nine similar casements on the first floor. There are single lights in the return elevations. A stack is located on the right end of the house, and a central stack rises from the roof to the rear, featuring a large overhang with shaped rafters, the soffit originally painted in contrasting colours. The garden elevation has paired casements with French doors. Attached to the right and projecting forwards is a single-storey, flat-roofed service and garage annexe, with an entrance in the inner re-entrant wall. Inside, the ground floor has a large, open living space, and the first floor has a corridor at the front. The house is part of a group with numbers 104 and 106, demonstrating an early use of a monopitch roof and a design that would have looked contemporary thirty years later.