Numbers 79 And 81 Including Attached Motor Houses

A pair of houses built in 1910-1911 by Ernest Wilmott, situated within the Hampstead Garden Suburb. The houses are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with tile hanging to the dormers. They have hipped and gable-facing tile roofs with boxed eaves. The design is bilaterally symmetrical, based on a double-ended hall house with catslide roofs to the returns, which enclose a motor house of original design. Each house has crosswings of a one-window range. At the outer corners of the recessed hall range are two-storey rectangular entrance porches of a one-window range, with strip glazing and Tuscan pilasters; bracketed porches support doors of an original design with decorative overlights. Flanking the party wall on the ground floor are a pair of segmental-arched windows with Venetian window glazing bars. The hall range is spanned by two broad, tile-hung, gable-facing dormers. An axial ridge stack is located on the party wall, with ridge stacks on each crosswing. Small Diocletian windows are present on the inside returns of the crosswings, and the ground-floor windows are segmental arched. The returns at the rear of the motor house are set back, featuring a chimney breast, stack buttresses and a dormer. A second dormer is located on the rear. The houses feature casement windows of an original design, and the motor house doors are also of original design. The design represents a noteworthy variation of the double-ended hall house type common to the suburb, enhanced by the presence of the motor houses, which are perfectly integrated into the overall design.