61-67, WILLIFIELD WAY

These artisans' cottages were built between 1909 and 1910 by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin as part of the Hampstead Garden Suburb. They are constructed with painted pebbledash walls, brick lintels to the ground floor, and tile detailing to gable kneelers, with weatherboarding to the half-dormers. The roof is half-hipped, tiled, with swept and boxed eaves. The cottages form an eight-window range and are designed in a Vernacular Revival style. The building’s arrangement deliberately complicates a formal design: a clear central point is established by a segmental-arched cross passage with a small stack above, while the sequential, informal placement of the openings creates a sense of informality. Weatherboarded half dormers are present in the first, second, sixth, and eighth window ranges. Dormers and windows on the central axis have three-light casements, while other openings have smaller, square casement lights. All openings are flat-arched unless otherwise stated, and the casements are of an original design. The segmental-arched cross passage is flanked by entrances to numbers 63 and 65. Number 61 has an entrance beneath a bracketed porch on its return, as well as a two-window range and an outshut to the rear. Number 67’s entrance is slightly off-axis with the seventh window. The right return of the one-window range has an outshut and stack to the rear, with a loft light below the half-hip. Axial ridge stacks are on the party walls between numbers 61 and 63, and between numbers 65 and 67. These cottages are similar to others in the area, including numbers 57-111 Willifield Way (odd) and 70-124 (even), which were designed by Moore and Hubbard. This section of Willifield Way represents an important example of street planning according to Parker and Unwin principles.