By 1900 the present built environment was almost complete.Ĭhalcot Road’s Utopia Village has been home to piano-making, electrical engineering and pharmaceuticals manufacture. Primrose Hill Road was built in the 1870s to improve access to the college estate. The Crown acquired the summit of the hill for public use, granting the college some land near Windsor in exchange. (The station closed in 1992.) Shortly afterwards Chalcot Square was laid out with stuccoed Italianate villas, while its central garden was planted with acacia trees. St Mark’s church was begun in 1851 and a station opened in the same year, originally under the name Hampstead Road. The hill was cleared of trees in the mid-17th century and remained as farmland until the arrival of the railway, when both the college and neighbouring landowner Lord Southampton seized the opportunity to sell building plots. The woodland here was granted to Eton College by Henry VI at a time when the name Primrose Hill was first coming into use. See more pictures and details about this property.Primrose Hill, Camden A delightful vantage point and its outrageously expensive residential surroundings, situated immediately north of Regent’s Park If you’re after Primrose Hill living on a budget, it can be done - but you’ll be buying wood and steel, not bricks and mortar.įor sale with Goldschmidt. See more pictures and details about this property.ġ-bedroom houseboat in Cumberlabnd Basin - £235,000 See more pictures and details about this property.Ģ-bed maisonette, St George’s Terrace - £1.2mĪ split-level maisonette in a lovely old building, with views across the park.įor sale with David Birkett. It looks directly across to Primrose Hill, and while there’s a lot of TLC and updating now needed, this could become one of the finest homes in the area.įor sale with Beauchamp Estates.
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Mr Sheppard himself turns into an opera impresario once a year when, with a friend, he puts on the Primrose Hill Opera Cabaret: ‘We get professional opera singers to come and sing, there’s a long interval for an indoor picnic and, at the end, every-one gets a chance to sing the Slaves’ Chorus from Nabucco.’ That’s a feat that other parts of London may find hard to match. Village spirit is especially strong, with a community centre in a former piano factory, a local library run by volunteers and ‘a good number of events’. Yeats’s childhood home and Kingsley Amis, who unfailingly went to The Queen’s pub for (copious) drinks and to French restaurant Odette’s for lunch (both subtly referenced in The Folks That Live on the Hill).Īfter seeing a gentle decline in the post-war years, the area ‘slowly started being gentrified,’ says Mr Sheppard, and today, ‘it’s a place people like living in - it has a pleasant atmosphere’. Wells was one of the many artists and writers that called the area home: others included Sylvia Plath, who first lived at chocolate-box-pretty 3, Chalcot Square with Ted Hughes, then, after they separated, at 23, Fitzroy Road, in what had previously been W. Wells who, in The War of the Worlds, had the invading Martians build ‘a mighty space’ on the crest of Primrose Hill. Many prominent figures followed in her wake, from philosopher Friedrich Engels (Karl Marx lived close by in Chalk Farm) to H. A magistrate whose probity earned him a reputation as ‘the best justice of the peace in England’, he had vanished a few days earlier, not long after he’d taken the deposition of clergyman Titus Oates, who alleged that there was a Popish Plot to kill Charles II. It was in a ditch on the hill’s south side that the body of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was found on a grim October day of 1678. In the late 17th century, the hill was a tranquil spot carpeted with primroses, but was also remote and part of it was thick with brambles - making it the perfect place to dispose of a dead man. Long before Blake wrote his lines, however, this pretty corner of London shot to national attention not for its beauty, but for a heinous murder. The light plays on the distant buildings and although many of them had yet to be constructed when William Blake made his way here, it’s easy to see why the poet felt he had met the ‘spiritual sun’ on Primrose Hill. The London skyline seems to rise from the foot of the grassy slope, an arresting sequence that takes in the dome of St Paul’s, the spike of the Shard and the less architecturally distinguished - but equally distinctive - BT Tower. It takes good legs to get to the top of Primrose Hill, but the view rewards the effort. Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardenersĬarla Passino takes a look at the finer things about living on Primrose Hill.
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