Building record 1059700000 - 6 AND 7 RECREATION GROUND

Grade II. Pair of houses. Dated H de R 1876 on plaque. Red brick with half-timbering and patterned tile-hanging to first floor. Tiled roof with some fishscale patterning, 3 brick chimneys with pilasters. 2 storeys, 2 asymmetrical bays to N. C20 casements in original openings. Right bay is gabled and projecting and has jettied first floor with coved overhang and oriel window with coved base. Half-glazed door in left return wall has tiled lean-to hood on brackets. Left bay has smaller gable. W. side has gabled bay to left with first floor and oriel window jettied on brackets, and altered lean-to, formerly a porch with turned wooden balusters to right. Hipped dormer window above porch. Extended to S. and W. C20. Similar to Nos. 22 and 24 Leighton Road. Part of a group of picturesque estate cottages built for Hannah de Rothschild in style influenced by work of George Devey at Ascott (B1).