Red brick and white roughcast Arts and Crafts houses line curving hedged avenues around Lutyens's domed and spired churches.
What Hampstead Garden Suburb looks like
Hampstead Garden Suburb is built in curving avenues and hedged closes rather than a grid. Red brick and white roughcast houses sit behind clipped hedges and wide grass verges, with semi-detached pairs and short terraces repeating tile hung gables, dormer windows and tall brick chimneys along each block. Pavements are broad and, on a few streets, still paved in brick rather than asphalt.
The Artisans' Quarter, in the suburb's north west, is mostly two storey cottages. They are in roughcast render over red brick or London stock brick, with steep pitched tile roofs and weatherboarded gables. Curving roads such as lead to closes reached by narrow footpaths the suburb calls twittens.
Central Square holds two churches designed by Edwin Lutyens. St Jude's is in red brick, built from 1909, with its spire rising 178 feet over the square. The stands opposite under a low concrete dome rather than a spire.
Toward the suburb's eastern edge the houses grow larger and more spread out. On , large detached houses in red brick stand well back from the kerb behind tall hedges. Steep tiled roofs, prominent chimney stacks and leaded casement windows set a different scale from the cottage streets closer to Central Square.
Shot in Hampstead Garden Suburb
The house at 33 The Bishops Avenue stands on one of the suburb's grandest streets, well away from the cottage closes of the Artisans' Quarter. The ITV series The Sweeney used it as the home of the gangster Meadows in the 1976 episode Down to You, Brother.
The Sweeney: Down to You, Brother, 1976
Played Meadows' house, 1976
The house stood in for Meadows' home in the episode. It sits on The Bishops Avenue, where large detached houses behind tall hedges and gates contrast with the suburb's smaller Arts and Crafts cottages elsewhere.
What Hampstead Garden Suburb can double for
Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York
Forest Hills Gardens was built from 1908 directly modelled on Hampstead Garden Suburb, with the same curving streets, grass verges and Tudor Revival brick houses under red tile roofs. Station Square and the streets around it carry the closest match for the 1900s through the 1920s. American road markings and mailboxes need dressing out. Its houses also run larger and more individually detailed than the Artisans' Quarter cottages. Try searching Tudor brick houses curving street now.
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
Letchworth was planned by the same architect, Raymond Unwin, in the years just before Hampstead Garden Suburb. Its cottage terraces share the same roughcast and brick, steep tiled roofs and curving roads, on a full garden city scale with more open land between groups of houses. Letchworth's wider plots and more agricultural surroundings make it look more rural than the Suburb's denser closes. Try searching roughcast cottage terraces curving road now.
Chorltonville in Manchester, England
Chorltonville's Edwardian houses date from 1911 and use curving streets and grass verges like the Artisans' Quarter, on a smaller village scale. They are a similar two storey height in a comparable Arts and Crafts style, with mirrored semi-detached pairs along each road. The village is noticeably smaller than Hampstead Garden Suburb, so a wide establishing shot will show its edges sooner. Try searching curving Edwardian semi-detached pairs now.
