Primrose Hill is an arty north-west London enclave that saw its popularity soar in the Nineties due to a group of actors and musicians who chose to live there and were subsequently named “The Primrose Hill set”.
Stars such as Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Sienna Miller, Kate Moss and Liam Gallagher raised the area’s profile.
More recently, celebrities such as Jimmy Carr, Dermot O’Leary, David Walliams and Nick Grimshaw have called the leafy district home.
Wealthy homehunters hoping to buy into the area’s exclusive postcodes (NW1, NW3 and NW8) might want to check out one of only a handful of properties to back directly onto Primrose Hill — the 62-acre parkland and hill which is one of six protected viewpoints in London.
Listed for £10.85 million, and in need of some modernisation, the semi-detached house on Elsworthy Road has six bedrooms and off-street parking for two cars.
A wall separates the home’s private garden from the spectacular Primrose Hill park.
Richard Bryce, co-founder of House Collective, the agent the house is listed with, says: “It’s not just the setting that’s rare — it’s the feeling. Standing in the south-facing garden, you could easily forget you’re in the heart of the capital.”
While in desperate need of a lick of paint, inside the house is equally as impressive, spread across five floors and featuring grand proportions, high ceilings, large windows and original features.
The sun room is particularly striking, connected to the conservatory below with a spiral staircase, and offers views out towards that long, private garden. There are five reception rooms, six bedrooms and an equal number of bathrooms, a kitchen and breakfast room, plus a study and plant room. Outside, in addition to the off-street parking for two cars, there’s also a garage.
Bryce adds: “Properties of this scale and position are vanishingly rare — but what makes this house truly exceptional is its connection to the park. There are only a handful of homes in London where the garden quite literally backs onto Primrose Hill, offering that magical, uninterrupted green outlook — and even fewer that come with this level of privacy and potential.”
