126, 128A, AND 128B, WILLIFIELD WAY

BARNET TQ2588 WILLIFIELD WAY 31-0/26/10291 Hampstead Garden Suburb Nos.126, 128A, AND 128B

GV II

Artisans' cottages. 1910. Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Red brick in Flemish band with all openings except for the gable-headed half dormers being segmental arched; the dormers have weatherboarded heads and are flat arched; tile dressings. The building is conceived on the pattern of a single-ended hall house; four-window range to hall and gable-facing crosswing of two-window range; two storeys. The crosswing continues the line of the long range in Nos. 38, 40 and 42 Asmuns Hill, even (q.v.) and closes the view along Willifield Green into Willifield Way; two-window range to left return of hall. Vernacular Revival style. Hall range with half dormers, the gutters suspended across the eaves gap; polygonal ground-floor bay in first range with a pair of entrances to the right; entrance to crosswing unit in gable facing, in recessed porch with canted sides; the return of the crosswing of three-window range. Weatherboarded single-storey wing projecting from rear of No.128A; outshut to Nos. 128A and 128B, with two tiers of dormers, those to the first floor roofed in metal and to the loft hipped. Of special note is the view of the rear of the group from Asmuns Hill; this elevation is extraordinarily picturesque and reflects the architects' awareness that it be plainly visible from the pavement due to the fall of the site. Axial ridge stack to gable end of No.128A; another on party wall between Nos. 128B and 126. Forms part of an important Parker and Unwin group, consisting of Nos. 113, 123-133 (odd), 12d-156 (even) Willifield Way (q.v.) and 38, 40 and 42 Asmuns Hill, even (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ2514188858