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G. G. Winbourne

N2 0RH

both East Finchley

Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded in 1906 by Henrietta Barnett as one of many planned communities that sprang up in the first part of the twentieth century, and its architecture is heavily influenced by the arts and crafts designs of its planners Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. There are, however, a number of modernist-influenced houses within its borders. 28 Spencer Drive is a white-rendered, flat-roofed house by Welch, Cachemaille-Day and Lander, with a pantile-edged parapet. The houses in Lytton Close were designed by G. G. Winbourne in a restrained art deco style with curved suntrap windows, glazed staircase towers and sunroofs. There are a number of other modernist houses in the suburb by the likes of Ernst Freud (Neville Road) and Michael Manser (Byron Drive), but many are well hidden by hedges and fences.