77, Addington Road

Four-bedroom detached house with attached garage block, designed in 1934 by Leslie Kemp and Tasker in International Moderne style. The house was featured as a showhouse in the Ideal Home Exhibition of that year as part of a display entitled "Village of Tomorrow".

The exterior is built of rendered brick with a flat sun roof and rendered chimneystack attached to a square staircase turret that rises to roof level. The house is of two storeys with the staircase turret containing three windows, one to the turret itself. Original metal windows with horizontal glazing are found throughout all elevations. All elevations feature unmoulded bands at cornice level and bands above the first-floor windows.

The front elevation has two tall three-light casements and a central doorcase on the ground floor beneath a flat semi-circular wooden hood supported on two oak piers set on a semi-circular brick and tiled step. The door comprises an oak surround but is mainly opaque glass with a cast-iron scrolled grille, flanked by tall sidelights also with opaque glass and cast-iron scrolled grilles that open outwards. The first floor has three-light casements with the central fixed light featuring a distinctive chevron design. A low rendered wall forming a flower border outline is attached to both the front and left-side elevations, terminating either side of the front door in stepped piers.

The left-side elevation has two narrow casement windows and a central door to the Master Bedroom on the first floor, opening onto a curved sun balcony with metal railings that stretches the full length of this elevation. The ground floor has a tall five-light curved bay to the Living Room, a tall three-light window to the left, and a further two-light window.

The rear elevation has a central tall staircase window flanked by wider windows and a right-side porch with a door featuring horizontal glazing. The right-side elevation has two narrow casements on both floors and a ground-floor tradesmen's entrance with horizontal glazing, which connects to a two-storey garage block built in matching style but of lower elevation. The garage block has two metal casement windows to the first floor and later twentieth-century garage doors to the ground floor.

According to the 1934 Ideal Home catalogue, the interior featured fully glazed double doors. A particular feature was that the Hall, Study, Dining Room and Lounge could be opened out into one continuous room 40 feet long at the front of the house for entertaining. The Lounge had a built-in window seat, built-in cupboard and table, bookshelves and cupboards. The Dining Room was panelled with a built-in sideboard. The kitchen had built-in cupboards and there was a telephone enclosure. The ground floor had maple floors and the first floor had deal floors. The original architects' plan shows built-in cupboards to three bedrooms and a built-in full-length mirror to the landing.