26 and 28, Asmuns Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1996. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
26 and 28, Asmuns Hill
- WRENN ID
- tall-forge-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Finchley and Golders Green MP: Sarah Sackman (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1996
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 26 and 28, Asmuns Hill, NW11 6ET
- OS grid reference
- TQ 250 887
- Coordinates
- 51.58404, -0.19601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 and 28 Asmuns Hill are a pair of artisans' cottages built in 1909 by architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. The cottages feature painted pebbledash with a brick plinth in Flemish bond and weatherboarding on the gables of the stair towers. They have a hipped roof covered with tiles, characterized by swept eaves and exposed rafter ends.
The buildings are two storeys high and have a two-window range, with full-height rectangular bays at the corners that house staircases illuminated by clerestorey strips. This paired stair-tower design is common throughout Hampstead Garden Suburb and resembles the nearby cottages at Nos. 136 and 138 Hampstead Way. Each cottage has an axial ridge stack on the party wall and additional stacks on the external walls of the returns.
On both storeys, there are pairs of three-casement windows flanking the party wall. The entrances are located on the returns, set within recessed porches that have canted side walls. A tile storey band runs between the towers. At the rear, there is an outshut with a catslide roof. The garages at the back of each cottage are not of special interest. No. 28 retains its original appearance, featuring an outshut roof that encloses a porch area at the rear entrance, a plain wood upright, and a small dormer on the catslide. The Asmuns Hill group is a significant example of a complete streetscape designed by Parker and Unwin.
Local climate
26 and 28, Asmuns Hill sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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