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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26648210

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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