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Description

Hurstbourne is an exceptional restored Victorian residence located on the peaceful, crescent shaped Bishopswood Road in Highgate. The red brick façade with its period features and architectural details reveals a home of grand proportions that has been carefully modernised for 21st century living. The property includes a grand master bedroom suite, a further five large ensuite bedrooms, formal reception rooms, lift, swimming pool, spa, gym and a cinema / media room.

Location

Highgate offers attractive journey times into Central London and the City. Located in zone 3 on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line, Highgate underground is only 16 minutes to the West End and 19 minutes to London's financial heart. Buses run frequently from Highgate Village and Kenwood House with five routes covering a large area of North and Central London with destinations including Brent Cross, Moorgate, King's Cross and Swiss Cottage. Hurstbourne's close proximity to the A1 ensures a swift exit from the City and direct access to the centre and north of England and on to Edinburgh. Heathrow Airport is within easy reach, as are the private and business aviation terminals at Luton, Northolt and Farnborough.

Further Information

Hurstbourne is an exceptional restored Victorian residence located on the peaceful, crescent shaped Bishopswood Road in Highgate. The red brick façade with its period features and architectural details reveals a home of grand proportions that has been carefully modernised for 21st century living with a new build interior showcasing quality craftsmanship, designer materials and state-of-the-art home technology. The exceptional living space includes a master bedroom suite that fills the entire first floor, an ultra modern family kitchen, a selection of formal entertaining rooms, a swimming pool, spa area, gym and a cinema / media room. The impeccably landscaped garden with its collection of trees planted in the 1920s secretly conceals the basement leisure and entertainment suite below.

Area Guide:
Bishopswood Road has long been one of the most desirable streets to live in Highgate. Highgate Village, with its characteristic Georgian fronted shops and the woodlands of Hampstead Heath are only half a mile away. The area is renowned for its high concentration of many of London's top-performing independent schools.

Illustrious former occupants at number 16 include Archibald V. Hill, who shared the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1922. English Heritage will install a blue plaque, on completion of Hurstbourne, in commemoration of Hill's work. Archibald lived at number 16 with his wife, Margaret Hill, the daughter of John Neville Keynes, a prominent figure at Cambridge University and sister to Maynard Keynes, the famous economist. Margaret was a key figure in local politics and set up Hill Homes in 1944, a housing association providing quality homes for elderly people. Margaret's dedication was both nationally and internationally acclaimed and her work was publically recognised in 1957 when she was awarded a CBE.