Otherwise, Parker and Unwin's artisan housing survives in remarkably good condition. In Hampstead Way the plain roughcast cottages first form a symmetrical group on either side of the entrance to Asmuns Place and then bend round into Asmuns Hill with the two hipped bays of numbers 136-138 closing the view in what Unwin called a "street terminal". The pair of cottages on the corner, numbers 140-142, were the first to be built in the Suburb in 1907 and bear inscriptions commemorating this. A special "press view" was arranged on 7th May 1908 when the Building News reported that 69 cottages were finished and 55 under construction.
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