106, Orchard Road

This is a house dating from 1936, designed by M.B. Crowley and C.G. Kemp for the Hopkins family. It is constructed of yellow stock brick in a stretcher bond pattern, with cavity walls and a blue Staffordshire brick plinth. The monopitch roof is covered with blue-grey Staffordshire pantiles. The house is in the International Modern Style, a rectangular plan with two storeys. The principal entrance is on the left side of the front elevation, featuring a plain hood. The ground floor has square metal casements, with five windows in a row to the right of the entrance, separated by brick mullions, and two windows to the left. The first floor has similar groups of five and two windows. There are boxed eaves, and single lights in the return elevations. The rear roof slopes down, with a large overhang and shaped rafters; the soffit was originally painted in contrasting colours. The fenestration to the garden includes central French doors flanked by larger casement windows of two and four lights on the ground floor, and four two-light casements on the first floor. A later garage addition exists to the left, and a single-storey outbuilding is on the right. Inside, original tiling and concrete stairs with a wreathed iron handrail remain. Number 106 forms part of a group with numbers 102 and 104, and is considered an early example of the use of a monopitch roof and a design that would have seemed contemporary thirty years later.