Neighbourhood guide · N6
Highgate
A hilltop village of Georgian houses, deep gardens and long views over London.
Highgate sits on the other hill, across the Heath from Hampstead. It is smaller and quieter, with a village green, Georgian houses around Pond Square and some of the longest views over London.
Living in Highgate
The village at the top of the hill
Highgate grew up around the old road north out of London, and the village still has the shape of a coaching stop: a high street at the top, a green and Pond Square just behind it, and lanes running steeply down on every side. The Grove, a row of late seventeenth-century houses, is where Coleridge spent his last years.
Below the village the gardens get longer and the houses larger. Swain's Lane drops past Highgate Cemetery, Waterlow Park falls away towards Archway, and from the top of Highgate West Hill the whole of the City is laid out in front of you.
People choose Highgate for space and schools at a lower price than Hampstead, and for a village where shopkeepers know their customers. Kenwood and the Heath are a short walk, and Highgate Wood is at the end of the road.
Streets we know
Four of our favourites
I
The Grove
A row of houses from around 1690, with a wide green in front.
II
Pond Square
Cottages and Georgian houses around the old village square.
III
Highgate West Hill
A steep road of large houses with views towards the City.
IV
Swain's Lane
The lane past Highgate Cemetery down to the Heath.
On the map
Highgate, close up
The houses we are selling here and the places our buyers ask about first: parks, shops, stations and the odd museum.
Good to know
Before you move
Red brick and autumn colour in the village.
Kenwood House, a short walk across the Heath.
For sale and sold
Homes in Highgate
Off market
Not everything is listed
Tell us what you are looking for in Highgate and we will call you before a house comes to market.
From the journal
Stories from Highgate
Keep exploring
Other neighbourhoods
Selling in Highgate?
We know who is looking here
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