1 And 3, Asmuns Place

A pair of artisans’ cottages built in 1908 by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, located within the Hampstead Garden Suburb. The cottages are constructed with painted pebbledash, and have half-hipped tile roofs with a brick stack on the front slope of the shared party wall, and to the rear slope of number 3. They are arranged as a bilaterally symmetrical two-window range. Entrances are set within canted recesses, each with a square hall light in the corners. Inside each entrance is a deep canted bay, finishing in a high parapet to the first-floor porch. The entrances are spanned by flat-roofed porches which project from the bay, and are topped by a jowled upright. French doors with narrow sidelights provide access to the first floor, topped by gable-headed half-dormers that shelter the porch. Narrow casements flank the party wall on the ground floor. Numbers 1 and 3, together with numbers 2 and 4 of Asmuns Place, establish the cul-de-sac of Asmuns Place, along with numbers 5-59, and are an important early example of a cottage layout described in Unwin’s "Town Planning in Practice". The cottages are included on the list for their group value.