Abbeyfield House And Attached Laundry House

Abbeyfield House and the attached laundry house were built between 1913 and 1914 as a children's home and day servants' house, and they now serve as an old people's home. Designed by B Parker and R Unwin for the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust, the buildings feature purplish brick in Flemish bond with red brick dressings and a plain tile roof. This semi-detached pair consists of two storeys with an attic and has eight bays arranged in a 1:6:1 pattern, with a single-storey laundry house of three bays attached to the rear left.

The entrance elevation showcases red brick quoins along with door and window surrounds. The end bays project and are connected by a single-storey outshut that includes an internal porch at each end, supported by wooden columns with cornices. The doors have six flush panels, with the right door retaining a three-light top panel. The outshut features two tripartite windows. The ground floor has unequally-hung 15-pane sash windows, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes, and there are four 12-pane sashes in the flat-roofed attic dormers. The end bays are topped with parapets and recessed hipped roofs, and there is a central ridge stack along with additional stacks on the internal sides of the end bays in the front roof pitch.

On the rear, the building has a 1:4:1 bay arrangement, with the end bays projecting and connected by a three-bay loggia. The centre of the loggia projects and has been extended in the late 20th century. It features keyed round arches to the outer bays, an impost band, and a band below the parapet that fronts the first-floor balcony. The loggia contains doors and windows, and on the right side, there is an iron stair leading to the first floor, which has doors to the second and fifth bays and windows in the two central bays. The hipped-roofed end bays have four taller dormers. The right end bay has a blocked ground-floor door that was once linked by a canopy to the former laundry, which has a four-panel door on the gable end, small-pane windows with centre-pivoting opening lights, and a hipped roof with a stack on the left side. A rainwater head dated 1913 is located on the right return. This building was part of the Hampstead Garden Suburb and was donated by Mrs Knight and her sister, originally named St Catherine's House.