Description

TEWIN ORCHARD ROAD TL 21 NE (Southwest side) Tewin 3/153 No. 104 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 left of centre with splayed jambs and hood. Square metal casements boxed out in wood frames, 6 to right of entrance in a row separated by brick mullions, 1 to left. First floor row of 10 similar casements. Boxed eaves. Single lights in return elevations. 2 stacks on roof rising to rear where it has a large overhang with shaped rafters, soffit originally painted in contrasting colours. Fenestration to garden is 3 tripartite casements and French doors on ground floor. First floor 2 and 3 light casements. Projecting screen wall to right. 1 storey outbuildings with coped parapets, projecting slightly to left, set back slightly to right with hooded entrance. Interior: ground floor large open living space, first floor corridor to front. No. 104 forms part of an informally arranged group with Nos. 102 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: TL2665015621

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