Adelaide Cottage

Adelaide Cottage is an eventide home, now converted into four flats, built in 1913 by B Parker and R Unwin for the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust. It was restored in the 1980s. The building is constructed of purpleish brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick dressings, and has a plain tile roof. It is one storey high with an attic. The facade has five bays, arranged 1:3:1, with the end bays projecting slightly under hipped roofs. The lower part of the walls has a red brick plinth, quoins, and surrounds to the openings. A central, hipped-roofed porch has steps leading up to a six-panel door, which is above an overlight with geometric glazing bars and flanked by red brick pilasters. There is a fifteen-pane sash window on each side of the porch. Three hipped dormers are positioned above, each containing a nine-pane sash window. The end bays each have two small six-pane windows to the ground floor, and a segmental-headed dormer with a nine-pane sash. Three ridge stacks are present. The rear elevation features nine bays, with the central five bays projecting slightly. Windows are predominantly fifteen-pane and twelve-pane sashes. The central projection has a central door flanked by segmental-arched windows with side-lights. On the first floor, a central oculus is flanked by small eight-pane windows, and surmounted by a parapet. The end bays incorporate hipped half-dormers. The left bays have a French window into a square-columned loggia, with a door to the right of it. Returns are of two bays; the left return has a doorway on the right. The building was part of the Hampstead Garden Suburb and formerly housed elderly people, operated by the Salvation Army after being donated by Commissioner Adelaide Cox.