Neighbourhood guide · NW1
Primrose Hill
Painted houses around Chalcot Square and the best view of London from the top of the hill.
Primrose Hill is a small neighbourhood of painted houses at the foot of the hill it is named after. From the top you see the whole of central London, and Regent's Park is across the road.
Living in Primrose Hill
At the foot of the hill
Primrose Hill was built in the 1840s and 1850s as a modest suburb next to Regent's Park, and it has kept the scale it was built at: three- and four-storey terraces, painted in soft colours, around a few small squares. Chalcot Square and Chalcot Crescent are the ones people photograph.
Writers and actors moved here in the twentieth century. A blue plaque on Fitzroy Road marks the house where W. B. Yeats grew up and Sylvia Plath later lived, and another on Chalcot Square marks her first flat in London. The hill itself is protected, so the view from the top, across Regent's Park to the City, will stay as it is.
Daily life is built around Regent's Park Road, a short street of cafés, a bookshop and a butcher. London Zoo is on the edge of the park, the Regent's Canal runs along the south side, and Camden Town is ten minutes away on foot when you want something louder.
Streets we know
Four of our favourites
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Chalcot Square
Painted houses around a small garden square.
II
Chalcot Crescent
A curve of houses in every colour, the most photographed street in NW1.
III
Fitzroy Road
Where Yeats grew up and Sylvia Plath later lived.
IV
Regent's Park Road
The neighbourhood's high street, with the park at the end.
On the map
Primrose Hill, 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
The view south from the top of the hill.
A Saturday afternoon on Primrose Hill.
For sale and sold
Homes in Primrose Hill
Off market
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From the journal
Stories from Primrose Hill
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