Building record 1457500000 - 26, 28 & 29 - Oxford Road

Three detached houses developed by A Ayres in 1935/6. Silver Birches is all red/brown brick in a broadly Arts and Crafts style with central gable. Hipped roofs covered in plain clay tiles. Crittall windows (original?). Although still set back from the road these houses are somewhat closer to the road than those east of the church. They have the similar characteristics of spacious plots with mature trees and shrub belts next to the road. Newlands is rendered and whitewashed. Casement windows with small leaded lights and brick lintels and sills. Hipped plain clay tiled roof with overlarge but early flat-roofed dormer. Two prominent chimneys. Recessed porch with stacked tiled surround typical of Arts and Crafts style. Oak Croft (formerly Santusa) is in a Tudorbethan style with red/brown brick ground floor and black and white applied half-timbering to upper storey. Large extension at front to form an L-shaped composition, well-matched. “Garden village” character affected by apparent sacrifice of front garden to hard-standing. Designed in 1935/1936 by A Ayers. This is a local building of note within the Conservation Area of Gerrards Cross Centenary. (B1).