Building record 1458100000 - Devon Villas, 37-40 West Common

Built in 1907 by Uxbridge builder, Thomas Westacott, who had been born in Devon. Central date stone. Row of four two-storey cottages. Stock brick to ground floor with red brick bands. Upper storey pebbledashed and whitewashed. Front doors set in recessed porches. Four gables with black and white half-timbering. Slate roof with ridge crest. Three chimney stacks on ridge – one in centre and one at each end of the roof. Sash windows with two arched upper panes with 4 smaller arched panes above those. Particularly important to retain the harmony of the composition, windows, doors and decorative treatment of this row. This is a local building of note within the Consrvation Area of Gerrards Cross. (B1)