20 The Paddock House and 19 Widenham House - West Common
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Pair of architect-designed houses built in the early twentieth century
Two substantial detached houses both designed by the important London architects, Forbes & Tate. Both two storeys plus attic The Paddock House was featured in the Studio Yearbook 1914. Its windows are particularly interesting with unusual full-height bay windows – a narrow canted bay either side of a non-projecting window. Hipped plain clay tiled roofs – hipped gable and hipped dormers. Widenham House is flat-fronted in a broadly Queen Anne style with a steeply pitched hipped roof and flat-roofed dormers. Both are in red-brown brick with brick being used as decoration. Both also have prominent pierced chimney stacks. This is a local building of note within the Consrvation Area of Gerrards Cross. (B1).
The Paddock House was designed for solicitor J Stewart-Wallace by Forbes and Tate in 1911, the builder was E H Burgess. The neighbouring Widenham House was also designed by Forbes and Tate in 1911 (B2).
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Pair of architect-designed houses built in the early twentieth century
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