6, Linnel Drive

This is a house designed in an Elizabethan revival style, built in 1908 by Guy Dawber, as part of the Hampstead Garden Suburb. The design incorporates details reminiscent of James Gibbs, evoking the appearance of a late medieval house with 18th-century influences. The house is constructed of brick in mixed bonds, with stone detailing. It has a tile roof with a dentil cornice to the swept eaves, and facing gables with stone copings to the crosswings. The house is two storeys with a pair of hipped dormers, and two and a half storeys to the crosswings. It is designed as a doubled-ended hall house, featuring two windows to the gabled crosswings and a three-window range to the hall. The central entrance is framed by a Gibbsian surround with a projecting cornice, and above it is a flush stone surround and architrave to a window, topped by an oddly proportioned segmental pediment with an urn. The ground floor of the hall range and both floors of the crosswings feature François I-style casements, all with leaded lights of the original design. There is an axial stack to the front slope of the roof and to the side of a dormer. A peak of gable includes a segmental-arched light, and a pair of segmental-arched lights are present on the right return at ground floor, alongside a shallow oriel. Number 6 was one of a pair of houses intended by Dawber to screen the view from Linnel Drive to the Heath Extension, with its counterpart built later to a different design.