66 And 68, Corringham Road

A pair of houses located on Corringham Road in Barnet, built in 1911 by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. The houses are constructed of red brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with red brick dressings and a tiled roof with swept and boxed eaves; the roof to number 68 is hipped, and there are hipped cross wings to the rear. They are two storeys high, with dormers to the hipped roof. Designed as a single-ended hall house, they are a mirror image of numbers 70 and 72 Corringham Road. The architectural style is Vernacular Revival. The main elevation has a three-window range hall wing and a two-window range crosswing. An entrance is located on the return of number 66, which steps down from a three-story gable end to a two-story wing; a bracketed porch covers the entrance to number 68. A full-height polygonal bay is present on the hall wing. There is an external gable stack on the return of number 66 and an axial ridge stack on the party wall. The left return has two external axial stacks framing a gable-facing brick dormer which slightly projects from the line of the stacks, mirroring the dormer on the return of number 70 opposite. Weatherings are present on the ground-floor windows. The rear elevation is six windows wide, with two windows to each crosswing, and a pair of hipped dormers to the centre ranges, with one hipped dormer to the right-hand crosswing. An axial stack is located on the inside return of the left crosswing, and a late 20th-century skylight is present in the roof slope, which is not of special interest. The pair forms part of a significant group of buildings designed by Parker and Unwin, including numbers 62-76 (even) Corringham Road and numbers 1-17 (odd) and 2-18 (even) Corringway.