20, Maresfield Gardens

This is an early 20th-century detached house, now a museum. It is constructed of red brick with rusticated brick quoins, and has a tiled roof with three tall chimney stacks and upswept eaves featuring a modillion eaves cornice. The design is inspired by 17th-century architectural styles. The house has two storeys and an attic, and features five windows plus a three-window canted entrance bay set asymmetrically. The doorway has a cornice head flanked by console brackets supporting a broken pediment hood, and incorporates a door with panels shaped to resemble an oculus. A smaller, part-glazed, panelled door is to the left. The windows are flush-framed sashes with exposed boxing; the entrance bay has tall transom and mullion windows on the first floor. The interior of the house has not been inspected. A plaque records that the house was the home of Sigmund Freud during his exile from the summer of 1938 until his death in September 1939. Following his death, it was lived in by his daughter, Anna Freud, also a leading psychoanalyst. The house was opened as a museum in 1986, showcasing the lives and work of Sigmund and Anna Freud, including Sigmund Freud’s collection of antiquities and much of his original furniture, notably 'The Couch'.