Description

TEWIN ORCHARD ROAD
TL 21 NE
(Southwest side)
Tewin
3/152 No. 102
9.3.82
GV II

House. 1936 by M.B. Crowley and C.G. Kemp for Hopkins family. Yellow
stock brick, stretcher bond cavity walls with blue Staffordshire brick
plinth. Blue-grey Staffordshire pantiles to monopitch roof.
International Modern Style. A rectangle on plan. 2 storeys. Ground
floor: principal entrance to right, simple brick surround with
projecting flat hood on brick pier to later glazed door. A row of 6
square metal casements boxed out in wood frames separated by brick
mullions. First floor row of 9 similar casements. Boxed eaves. Single
lights in return elevations. Right end extruded stack. Central stack in
roof which rises to rear where it has a large overhang with shaped
rafters, soffit originally painted in contrasting colours. Fenestration
to garden is paired casements with French doors. Attached to right and
projecting forwards is a 1 storey flat roofed service and garage annexe,
entrance in inner re-entrant wall. Interior: ground floor large open
living space, first floor corridor to front. No. 102 forms part of an
informally arranged group with Nos. 104 and 106 (q.q.v.) which together
are an early example of the use of a monopitch roof and a design which
would not have appeared out of place thirty years later. (The Architect
and Building News, 26/6/36, p.388: F.R.S. Yorke, The Modern House in
England, 1944, p.23).

Listing NGR: TL2663015649

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26381506

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