Brick lanes and pedestrian courts run off a short high street to the edge of the heath, and An American Werewolf in London used a red brick mansion block on East Heath Road for the werewolf's first London killing.
What Hampstead looks like
Brick shopfronts run two to four storeys along the high street, with a painted corner bay over No. 22 and a black and white half timbered front beside it. The Underground station stands at the junction with behind a red tiled facade, a newspaper kiosk beside its entrance and buses turning past. The old Clock Tower building is at the foot of Heath Street on the corner of Holly Hill, red brick with arcaded stonework under its windows and a bank on the ground floor. A pre-Worboys direction sign still points drivers to Golders Green and Highgate.
is an alley off the shops, its name in white capitals on a tiled nameplate above a green shopfront. Lights hang the length of , past a jewellers and a cafe that keeps tables out on the pavement. Bird in Hand Yard is a cobbled mews with brick close on both sides, one lamp post and an iron fire escape.
East Heath Road divides the houses from open parkland. stands on the heath side of it, five storeys of red brick with bay windows and a corner turret above the hedge and railings. The Hoo on Lyndhurst Gardens is red brick with tile hanging above, steep gables and a tall chimney stack over cars parked at the kerb.
A lane off East Heath Road reaches the , a hamlet the heath surrounds on every side. Its pond sits under trees with a mid century apartment block on the far bank. Parliament Hill, at the southern end of the heath, looks out over central London.
Shot in Hampstead
The Killing of Sister George opens on the narrow stepped passages between Heath Street and Hampstead Grove, with on Holly Mount playing a pub called The Marquis of Granby. , a large detached house on West Heath Road, was the exterior of Cruella De Vil's mansion in both 101 Dalmatians and 102 Dalmatians. Allied took over in 2016 and filmed the family home there as 1940s London.
An American Werewolf in London, 1981
The Pryors, East Heath Road
A young couple get out of a taxi on East Heath Road and walk down the side of the building toward the heath, meaning to surprise their hosts at a dinner party. David finds them there instead, in the film's first London killing. The Pryors dates from the early 1900s and its front has barely changed, though a pedestrian crossing has been added since the shoot.
Hampstead, 2017
Perrin's Court
Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson shot a scene inside the restaurant Villa Bianca with forty five cast and crew in the room. The Netflix series After Life later used the same restaurant for a date scene.
After Life, 2019
Flask Walk
Played Tambury, a fictional English town, present day
The Netflix series shot at 65 Flask Walk. The 2017 film Hampstead used The Flask and the shopfronts beside it on the same street, and shot along the high street and Heath Street as well.
What Hampstead can double for
Keere Street in Lewes, East Sussex
Keere Street runs down off the High Street as a steep cobbled lane closed to cars. Its houses are two storeys and attics under plain tiled roofs, brick at ground level with hung tile above. Bird in Hand Yard is the same width, cobbled and brick on both sides. Flask Walk has the same paved run of small shops. The Underground station and the chain fascias on the high street are the giveaway in a wide shot, so keep the frame inside the courts. Try searching cobbled lane hung tile now.
Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts
Beacon Hill has brick row houses two and three storeys tall on narrow streets, with brick sidewalks, gas lamps and cobblestone still down on Acorn Street. The cobbled mews and the lanes off the high street sit at that scale, and Charles Street at the foot of the hill holds the restaurants and antique shops. British road markings, postboxes and the Underground roundel all have to stay out of shot. The tile hanging and the half timbered fronts have no counterpart in Boston. Try searching brick sidewalks cobblestone street now.
The large villas on Clayton Road and Fernwood Road are detached and semi detached, in buff brick and sandstone with later red brick Queen Anne fronts. Most of them went up between 1858 and 1898. The Hoo on Lyndhurst Gardens is a detached house of that size, red brick with tile hanging above and steep gables, set back behind cars on a leafy street. Newcastle's terraces run longer and flatter than anything here, so hold the shot on a single house and its garden wall. Try searching large detached brick villas now.
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