Number 10 And Attached Garage

Number 10 and the attached garage is a house built in 1932 by E Vincent Harris for himself. It features narrow red brick and a graded hipped slate roof with exceptionally tall stacks behind high parapets. The house has a single storey and basement at the front, with a full lower storey at the rear due to the sloping land. The attached garage on the left is an important part of the balanced design, connected by a curved wall that offsets the projecting wing of the L-shaped house to the right.

The front has four bays, with sash windows set under gauged brick heads, regularly spaced but shifted to the right. An 8-panelled door projects in the two-bay wing to the right, accompanied by a single window. The door is framed in a moulded eared surround with a keystone. There is one window on the return to the street that balances the garage, which has double panelled doors. The side elevation is similarly designed, but its four windows are more symmetrically arranged.

The garden elevation has seven bays, with the right portion featuring four symmetrically displaced sash windows. The left part presents a unique symmetrical composition with a semi-circular ground-floor window that projects under a slated semi-dome topped with a finial, which illuminates Harris's former studio.

The interior has not been inspected, but it is known that the principal rooms remain largely unchanged, retaining their original panelling and covings. E Vincent Harris was a significant designer of public buildings from 1909 to 1960, and he left this house to St Pancras Metropolitan Borough in 1952 for the benefit of the borough and its employees.