Description

BARNET
TQ2488 ASMUNS PLACE
31-0/25/10111 Hampstead Garden Suburb
Nos.5-15 (Odd)

GV II

Houses. 1908. Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, probably designed by Charles Wade, an 'office assistant. Brick in Flemish bond with red brick dressing and tile creasing; tile gable kneelers; tile hung facing gable to centre. Roof of tile. Two storeys. Plan conceived as variant of double-ended hall house with end units treated as crosswings of one window each and hall range of eight windows; floor height changes between ranges four and five in centre, the window to the left lower than that to the right and topped by a shallow hipped eaves projection. In third- and sixth-window ranges a very broad, round diaphragm arch turned in tile, the angled returns of each pierced by entrances; unusual inner arch opens into cross passage. Entrance to No.5 set in left-hand side of canopy porch with deep canted bay beside it. All other openings flat arched, those to ground floor with relieving arches and tile creasing to tympana; similar treatment to first-floor windows in crosswings. First-floor windows as hipped half dormers in ranges 2, 3, 6 and 8. Entrance to No.15 on return. Ridge stacks to inner corners of end wings and at centre; subsidiary stacks to the returns of first-floor windows. Doors of original design with slight alterations; two- and three-light casements of original design. Mirrors elevation of Nos. 6-16 (even) opposite and part of an important group consisting of Nos. 1-59 (odd) and 2-52 (even) Asmuns Place (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ2492288741

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082746

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