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4 bedroom terraced house
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- 4 bedrooms
- 2 reception rooms
- 3 bathrooms
- Garden
- Terraced
- Town/City
The south-facing garden is home to what is widely regarded as the tallest climbing rose in London, and a summer house inspired by the famous Hampstead modernists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. Each year in May, swifts from the Congo return to this part of the Village and swoop the gardens all summer long.
The top two floors host an outstanding modernist reception room with a mezzanine level library. Two further terraces offer picture book views of the Heath, the Village and an elevated view of the City of London.
The property has only had two owners in recent memory. For 50 years it was home to the artist and illustrator Dorothea Braby. Her roof garden - replaced in 1990 - was decorated with a giant mosaic proclaiming 'Abandon despair all ye who enter here'. For the past 34 years, the property has been home to a British film and TV director.
Willow Road is a particularly quiet street. The bells of Christchurch ring out on Sunday mornings and weekdays are punctuated by the chatter of schoolchildren as they process past the house to and from the local primary school. At night, owls can be heard hooting on the Heath. In Spring the house looks out onto a sea of wild daffodils, and cow parsley spills off the heath like a country lane. In the autumn, the chestnut tree across the road peppers the street with conkers.
For small children there's a playground at the bottom of the road and a soon to be opened children's puppet theatre at the top. For grown-ups, creative inspiration is at hand. The house is equidistant between the homes of two Hampstead legends, the painter John Constable and the romantic poet John Keats. Visitors have long remarked on the house's unusually still and tranquil atmosphere.
Willow Road is one of Hampstead's most sought-after residential roads and is perfectly positioned between Hampstead Heath and the bustling Hampstead Hight Street and all of it's amenities, including Hampstead Tube Station (Northern Line) and many boutiques and restaurants..
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