Willifield Way extends to Finchley Road, the red brick cottages gradually giving way to simpler roughcast terraces. At the top of Hogarth Hill there is a handsome brick pair with three gables and there are two other special houses at the Finchley Road end. Number 188 (Willifield House) is a restrained Georgian house probably attributable to Michael Bunney, and number 858 Finchley Road (Finchley House) is an excellent derivation from Parker and Unwin's dark brick manner with a round-arched doorway and a big hipped roof at each side. It was designed as late as 1929 by J C S Soutar himself and is perhaps his personal best.
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