Chequers Cottages, Numbers 1 To 6 Inclusive And 3 Linked Rear Outhouses

A block of estate cottages and three linked rear outhouses was built in 1913 by E.L. Lutyens for H.G. Fenwick. The cottages are constructed of dark red brick in a Flemish garden-wall bond, with some blue bricks, and have light red brick dressings and arches. The first floor is tile-hung, and the steep-pitched roofs are covered in handmade red tiles. The block is two storeys high, facing east, and is symmetrical around a brick barrel-vaulted central passage, with projecting gabled crosswings at each end, and hipped-roofed lower projections at the ends and rear. Three hip-roofed, single-storey brick outhouses are symmetrically disposed at the rear, with round arched openings to the central passage, with one situated on the central axis of the block.

The east front has an irregular disposition of openings mirrored in each half, and six fat square chimneys run along the ridge, each with clasping corner pilasters and waisted caps, a design typical of Lutyens' work in the area. A large rectangular chimney with two square shafts linked by a recessed panel projects at the outer side of each crosswing. The roofs have bellcast eaves and swept tiled valleys. There are six vertically moulded plank doors in heavy wooden frames. Four six-light flush wooden casement windows are located under the eaves on the first floor, illuminating the staircase landing, with small panes of glass. Two-light similar windows are above the doors of the end houses, which also feature the crosswings.

On the ground floor, each side of the centre, there is a four-light flush casement window, a door, a pair of small leaded larder windows with a brick mullion and tile lintel and drip, a door, a pair of larder windows, and a two-light flush casement window, in addition to the door of the end house. The central round-headed gauged arch to the passage has recessed spandrels, red dressings to the jambs, and a two-light hipped dormer window rising through the eaves above. Each projecting crosswing gable has a four-light flush casement window central to the first floor, and a four-light and one-light casement window on the ground floor, around the outer corner.