55-61, Temple Fortune Hill

A row of cottages located at 55-61 Temple Fortune Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, was built in 1912 and designed by George Lister Sutcliffe. The cottages are constructed of brick in Flemish and mixed bonds, with the first floor of the recessed central ranges rendered in painted finish. The roofs are half-hipped, tiled, and feature tile gable kneelers. The building has two storeys and a fifteen-window range, symmetrical around the seventh window. Designed in the vernacular revival style, the long elevation is based on the layout of a double-ended hall house. The crosswings have steeply pitched, two-span facing gables. Pebbledash on the first floor of the hall range creates the illusion of a jettied upper storey, while angled axial stacks at the inside corners of the crosswings contribute to a Tudor character, although the proportions are more refined than any 16th-century precedent. A segmental arched cross passage to the rear has a tile lintel. Ranges five, seven, and nine incorporate oriels set within the eaves; the remaining windows are two and three-light casements, all of original design. The entrances to numbers 57 and 59 are flat arched, flanked by sidelights. The entrance to number 61 is set within a round-arched recess flanked by canted bays. The entrance to number 55 is flat arched and situated under a bracketed porch, which extends from the roof of the canted bay to the right. First-floor windows of the two-span facing gables are slightly offset from the peak. Flat-roofed half dormers transition to the flaring eaves of the hipped roof on the outer corners of the two-span gables, reaching lower than the eaves of the central hall range. Stacks have cubic heads on the end walls and the rear slope of the main roof, some of which have been rebuilt. The left return features a small Diocletian window near the corner and a two-window range. The right return is similar and includes a rear wing, which could not be inspected.