Area Guide: Primrose Hill NW1
The relatively small size and elevated views ensure exclusivity, while its popularity among media and film celebrities ensures prices and demand remain high. All this within a Regent’s Park stroll of central London.
Architectural highlights
White, stucco Victorian houses alongside Victorian redbrick terraces with plenty of colourful twists.
Smartest streets
Central to Primrose Hill village is Chalcot Square, with its pot pourri of coloured four-floor houses around a communal grassed square. Prices remain strong around the £4 million mark.
Who’s there
Gwen Stefani, Sadie Frost, Rachel Weisz, Meg Mathews, the Olivers, David Walliams… who isn’t?
Entertainment
There are a number of top restaurants and bars here; alternatively take a picnic on the Hill and enjoy arguably the best view in London. If you have youngsters to entertain, London Zoo is only a short hop away in Regent’s Park.
Education
Choose from Chalcot Montessori School, Trevor Roberts Prep School and South Hampstead High School for girls.
Travel
Chalk Farm and Swiss Cottage tube stations are just to the north, and there are plenty of bus services. Otherwise it’s a pleasant walk through Regent’s Park into the West End.
Trivia
In the 16th century, when King Henry Vlll acquired Primrose Hill as part of his hunting chase, Mother Shipton, a legendary fortune-teller, predicted that when London surrounded Primrose Hill, the streets of the city would run with blood – fortunately for local residents, she was wrong!
Architectural highlights
White, stucco Victorian houses alongside Victorian redbrick terraces with plenty of colourful twists.
Smartest streets
Central to Primrose Hill village is Chalcot Square, with its pot pourri of coloured four-floor houses around a communal grassed square. Prices remain strong around the £4 million mark.
Who’s there
Gwen Stefani, Sadie Frost, Rachel Weisz, Meg Mathews, the Olivers, David Walliams… who isn’t?
Entertainment
There are a number of top restaurants and bars here; alternatively take a picnic on the Hill and enjoy arguably the best view in London. If you have youngsters to entertain, London Zoo is only a short hop away in Regent’s Park.
Education
Choose from Chalcot Montessori School, Trevor Roberts Prep School and South Hampstead High School for girls.
Travel
Chalk Farm and Swiss Cottage tube stations are just to the north, and there are plenty of bus services. Otherwise it’s a pleasant walk through Regent’s Park into the West End.
Trivia
In the 16th century, when King Henry Vlll acquired Primrose Hill as part of his hunting chase, Mother Shipton, a legendary fortune-teller, predicted that when London surrounded Primrose Hill, the streets of the city would run with blood – fortunately for local residents, she was wrong!
