7 Huntingdon Drive

One of a number of similar Edwardian houses on Huntingdon Drive c1906-8, probably by Lawrence Bright & Son Architects. Later Arts and Crafts with Art Nouveau details. Formerly known as Ravenswood. Two flat conversion scheme including small extension and garages prepared by Michael Moss Architect for A.T. Horbury c1966. Later glazed, single storey, small lean-to building abuts house behind garage building. Pair of flat roofed garages with drive access replaces original boundary wall adjacent to Huntingdon Drive. House now converted back into single household use. Three storeys including attic plus basement. Originally, part rendered and part red brick facades with white painted rendered areas mainly at first floor level. Brick facades at ground floor. Brick quoins to rendered areas at first floor level and corbelled brick stop detail at abutment with render at first floor storey height level. Half - timbered styling to rear gable and upper parts of garden front. Two storey canted window bay facing garden and first floor balcony with originally, wood balustrading, now replaced with metal railings. Original clay plain tiles and ridge tiles to roof replaced with non-matching type. Painted wood bargeboards to gables and projecting wood eaves and fascias. Original dormer window overlooking garden. Red brick chimney stacks with decorative stone bands and projecting stone caps. One stack altered and original cap missing. Red clay louvre type chimney pots with some replacements. Mainly casement windows plus prominent box shaped oriel window over main entrance doorway, with projecting flat roof and supported on wood bracket. Glazing bars and leaded lights to some casements. Oculus window opening in gable facing Huntingdon Drive. Original main entrance doorway with projecting flat roofed canopy. Original brick boundary wall and copings adjacent to Tattershall Drive.