3 Bed Flat, Wellgarth Road, NW11

Marking the entrance to Hampstead Garden Suburb on the corner of Wellgrath Road, this three-bedroom apartment sits within an arts and crafts house by the notable art deco cinema architect George Coles.
Wonderfully located in a conservation area only five minutes’ walk from Hampstead Heath and Golder’s Hill Park, this building embodies the character of Hampstead Garden Suburb. This house was built around 1928 to a design by George Coles, who later in his career became one of the best-known Art Deco cinema architects, and later converted to apartments.

Entry is shared with one other flat and is on the second floor. Unusually for the area, the 1920s house was converted to apartments in the 1950s, and this one occupies the entire second floor. The property can be used as either a three bedroom flat or a two bedroom flat with a dining room/additional living room.

North End Road is an eight-minute walk from Golders Green Underground station (Northern Line) and Hampstead fifteen-minute walk, which also has good bus connections. The wonderfully wild Hampstead Heath extension is within close reach, along with Kenwood House, the swimming ponds, and the much loved Spaniards Inn for excellent Sunday roasts.

Hampstead Garden Suburb was founded by Henrietta Barnett in 1906, to coincide with the extension of the Underground system to Golders Green. Her intention was to prevent swathes of identical middle class houses being built, that had neither design nor community in mind. She commissioned a masterplan from Sir Raymond Unwin, later overseen by Sir Edwin Lutyens, to include communal squares, wide streets lined with flowering trees, parks and facilities. These are still incredibly well-maintained and the overall character of the conservation area is preserved by a governing trust.