10-12 Cunnery Road Church Stretton

LISTING TEXT -Pair of houses. 1899-1900. By Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin for Campbell Hyslop. MATERIALS: colourwashed rendered brick and plain tile hipped roof with central stack set diagonally. EXTERIOR: Single storey and attic. House to left has UPVC windows in original openings, house to right has wooden casements. A central gable has two 3-light casements set under the gable above eaves level. 2 similar casements to ground floor. To left and right a wooden openwork gabled porch with decorative heads between uprights. Plank doors. Wall ends are treated as inward sloping buttresses. Small casements on ends of each house and to rear, where each house has a gable with a pair of 2-light casements set under the gable. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: this pair of houses is the first built example of Parker and Unwin's project designs for garden city housing and as such is the significant precursor for the similar examples at New Earswick, and developed thera and at Letchworth and Hampstead Garden Suburb.