Muswell Hill N Ten
London, it has been said, is a collection of villages and small towns absorbed into a great city. Londoners give their allegiance to specific localities: Chiswick, Islington, Highgate, Hampstead or Muswell Hill for example.
The heart of London is, of course, the City and the West End. We travel into the centre to work or to enjoy ourselves, but we come back to our own district to make our homes. We find the local shops we like and seek out the local pubs, clubs, restaurants, libraries, churches and the open greenery to enjoy at the weekends. These places are the key to London life and in the right house or flat we are at home, in our own “village” environment.
People find that the more they understand the history and the secrets of their chosen locale, the more they come to enjoy it. As the years pass, those living in Muswell Hill for example, call themselves Muswell Hillians, Muesli Hillians or Muswell Thrillians - depending on their age and outlook!!
It means so much more than being “just”, a Londoner.
Look in our “History of Muswell Hill” section, for the story of how it became such a unique Edwardian suburb is told.
Central Muswell Hill has the buzz of an urban high street, set alongside a village atmosphere of independent traders and café’s, intermingled with nationally known shops and eateries - all situated within parades of stylish, red brick, Edwardian buildings topped by purpose built mansion blocks - which provide spacious flats retaining masses of architectural features from that era, interesting frontages, decorative plasterwork and sash windows.
The roads radiating from the heart of the Broadway really do display Edwardian architecture at its very best - rows of red brick terraced houses, expansive and ornate Edwardian semi detached houses, and in some cases double fronted villas, all line the roads known as the Royal Roads - Queens Avenue, Princes Avenue, Dukes Avenue and Grand Avenue. These houses are large, handsome and well appointed, with ornate pargetting into the exterior gables, and interiors with beautiful cast iron fireplace surrounds, wooden fretwork arches, ceiling cornices, dado and picture rails and turned staircase spindles, banisters and newel posts.
Some of these impressive Edwardian houses have also been converted into beautiful and spacious flats, and many of these have been sympathetically converted, so that each flat still retains a number of the original period features and fireplaces.
Central Muswell Hill is a conservation area encompassing the many health clubs, doctors and dentists, alternative health practitioners, primary and parochial schools, a Montessori School and Fortismere Secondary School, as well as providing good bus routes running in all directions linking to local Tube and Main Line Stations.
And, as our town centre is at the “top of the hill”, many of the roads, houses and flats give panoramic views towards the City Of London.
