Numbers 2 To 10 And Attached Wood Railings

Numbers 2 to 10 and attached wood railings form a row of houses built in 1911 within the Hampstead Garden Suburb, designed by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Constructed of brick in a Flemish bond pattern, the roofs are tiled with swept and boxed eaves. The houses are two storeys high, with hipped dormers, and three storeys to the gable-facing portions. The design is based on a double-ended hall house plan and takes inspiration from vernacular architecture, though the overall layout is bilaterally symmetrical. The central, sixteen-window range has gaps in the roof framed by chimney stacks. At first floor level, a two-bay Tuscan loggia with original railings shelters a porch. A coved cornice connects the loggia to the eaves, and two round-arched passages lead to the rear garden. The projecting crosswings, each of six windows arranged in pairs, feature a dormer in the centre. Entrances to Numbers 2 and 8 are recessed within corner porches topped with tent roofs exhibiting Regency influences. Entrances to Numbers 4 and 6 are set within the Tuscan loggia. All windows have leaded light casements within stained and varnished mullion and transom frames; they are either two or three lights. A central axial ridge stack is located between Numbers 4 and 6. An entablature band runs beneath the first-floor windows and alongside the loggia. The entrance to Number 10 is accessed via a bracketed porch, with a half-dormer above featuring a half-hipped gable and a side stack. A garden wall connecting Number 49 Hampstead Way to the row also forms part of the listing, containing a round arched opening. Number 49 Hampstead Way is included for its group value. The houses are closely related in design to Numbers 1 to 9 Heath Close (odd numbers) and to Number 51 Hampstead Way; together, they form a group with the entrance to Waterlow Court and define both sides of Heath Close.