48, Hampstead Way

No. 48 Hampstead Way is a house built in 1908 by architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. The exterior features painted pebbledash with tile flats and a first-floor sill band. It has a hipped roof covered in tiles with boxed eaves, and a flat lead roof over the ground-floor porch, which includes a pair of projecting bays. The building is two storeys high and has a roughly square plan with two windows on the front and two on each side. The entrance is slightly off-center and leads into a porch with a fitted settle. A high square chimney stack is located on the center line, enhancing the cubic appearance of the design. All windows are fitted with leaded casements, and there are rectangular bays on either side of the central range, with metal roofs that extend to form a canopy over the entrance. The first-floor windows are positioned close to the eaves, and there is a second chimney stack on the slope of the left hip. This design is notable for its origins in the Letchworth office of Parker and Unwin and reflects some of the distinctive characteristics of their work from that period, particularly the focus on mass and formal geometry.