Hampstead Garden Suburb Estate Agents

Located in North London, Hampstead Garden Suburb is situated close to Golders Green, Hampstead Heath, Highgate, and East Finchley. Areas we cover include Hampstead Heath Extension, Lyttleton Playing Fields, Temple Fortune, Golders Green, Finchley. With its close proximity to Hampstead Heath the location and character of Hampstead Garden Suburb makes it one of London's most desirable places to live. This beautiful part of North London is just 3.5 miles from Regents Park and the West End yet has preserved its original character of a garden oasis close to the centre of London. From first family homes to some of the most valuable properties in London, Hampstead Garden Suburb is the perfect area to settle down, grow a family and grow old. The quality of the local schools is a big attraction to the area and the blossom season in Spring rivals many more famous international cherry blossom spots.

History

Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded by Henrietta Barnett, who, with her husband Samuel, started the Whitechapel Art Gallery and Toynbee Hall. In1906, Henrietta set up the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Ltd, which purchased 243 acres of land for the scheme and appointed Raymond Unwin as its architect.Henrietta's vision was to create an area that would cater for all classes of people from all income groups, there should be a low housing density, roads should be wide and tree-lined, houses should be separated by hedges, not walls. Woods and public gardens should be free to all and it should be quiet with no church bells.The area is recognised worldwide as one of the most important utopian developments of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.After the initial building work began, development of the area grew quickly. Rising construction costs after WW1 meant that the private sector was no longer able afford to subsidise such projects which resulted in the properties being marketed to a more affluent buyer.

The area

 Hampstead Garden Suburb covers 880 acres (excluding the Heath Extension).The area comprises over 5,000 properties which range from studio flats to some of the largest mansion houses in London. It has the greatest concentration of statutory listed buildings in the Borough of Barnet (two Grade 1, forty-one Grade I|*, and seven hundred and forty Grade | Listed buildings). St Jude-on-the-Hill, the Free Church and the former Institute (now Henrietta Barnett School) in Central Square, are the major public buildings in Britain by Sir Edwin Lutyens.The Suburb has an active community life, supported by the Residents Association and a web of community groups of many kinds.Hampstead Garden Suburb has large areas of open space, including Central Square; Hampstead Heath Extension; Northway Gardens; Lyttelton Playing Fields; and Big Wood and Little Wood. The southern end is close to Golders Hill Park.