87 And 89, Hampstead Way

The pair of houses at 87 and 89 Hampstead Way were built in 1910 by Matthew Dawson. They are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with grey brick dressings, tile creasing over the doors, artificial stone details, and sections of tile hanging. The roofs are tiled. The design is long and rectangular, with a prominent stack and abutting dormers along the party wall. The building has a six-window facade, which appears roughly symmetrical. The design shows influences from vernacular revival architecture, resembling baffle-entry houses from the 17th century, and also draws from the Arts and Crafts Movement, with individual details exhibiting an Artisan Mannerist quality potentially related to English Classicism.

The entrances, situated in the second and fifth window bays, are set within flush stone surrounds flanked by pilasters supporting lintels that mimic Roman strigillation. Each entrance features a keystone displaying the house number in a decorative script and low relief panels in painted cast stone depicting a mythological scene. There is a cornice canopy porch with unusual dentil detailing, shared between the two houses, with a diamond-shaped keyed light above the entrance to number 87 and a circular light above number 89. The original double doors have decorative glazing. Ground-floor windows in the outer bays have tile lintels. A single, long, canted porch, shared between the units, interrupts the windows and features a brick pilaster along the party wall line. The porch has a flat-metal roof with a cornice flashing of hammered floral ornament. First-floor casement windows are three-light in the outer ranges and four-light flanking the party wall, with a sill band emphasizing the building's low proportions. A section of the party wall projects above the front roof slope to form a setback buttress to the axial ridge stack, which has a serrated profile produced by brick projections. Three-light, flat-roofed dormers flank the stack. There are also parallel ridge stacks to the left and another stack to the rear slope of the right-hand unit. The rear of 87 has a three-window return with a gable head that is tile hung, and a rear outshut. The rear return of 89 has a two-window range with a pair of flat-arched entrances, the rear entrance featuring a window above with an unusual projecting lower spandrel, and the gable end is fully tile hung.