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Beechwood House, Highgate

George Basevi buildingsGrade II listed houses in the London Borough of CamdenHighgateHouses completed in 1840Houses in the London Borough of Camden
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Beechwood House is a Grade II listed large detached house set in 11 acres (4.5 hectares) of grounds on Hampstead Lane in Highgate, North West London, N6. It was built in 1840 in the grounds of the former Fitzroy House by the architect and developer George Basevi for his brother Nathaniel, a barrister. It has been owned by several prominent personalities including politicians Lewis McIver and Oswald Lewis, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia, and the Qatari sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. It is owned by trusts linked to the Uzbek businessman Alisher Usmanov.

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Beechwood House, Highgate
Hampstead Lane, London Highgate (London Borough of Haringey)

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Hampstead Lane 43
N6 4SB London, Highgate (London Borough of Haringey)
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Fitzroy Park
Fitzroy Park

Fitzroy Park is a road in Highgate in the London Borough of Camden. It is entered from The Grove and runs down hill to Millfield Lane. The road originally formed the carriage drive for Fitzroy House. The formerly rural setting of the road was significantly altered during the 20th century by the development of large private residences and high walls.It is noted for its modernist houses. Nos. 8a and 10 are listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. The Hexagon, a gated housing development on Fitzroy Park, was built on the gardens of Witanhurst in the 1960s. A further development of 24 houses was built in 7 acres of the grounds of Witanhurst in 1985. The houses were priced between £750,000 and £1.5 million (equivalent to £4,834,964 in 2021). The site was acquired for £7 million by the Rosehaugh Group.Fitzroy House on Fitzroy Park was demolished in 1828 having been built in 1770. The grounds of Fitzroy House were reputedly designed by Capability Brown, and extended across the whole of the present site of the modern road.No. 6 was designed by the Danish architect Erhard Lorenz for the engineer Ove Arup and his family. The Arups moved to the completed house in 1957. Lorenz had originally situated the kitchen of the house facing north, toward a mudbank, but it was moved to overlook the garden after the complaints of Ruth Sørenson (known as "Li"), Arup's wife.No. 8a was designed by Hal Higgins of Higgins and Neyfor for the engineer Peter Epstein, as Epstein's private house and built between 1965 and 1967. The Historic England heritage listing praises the design of 8a as being " ... entirely of its time" as well as " ... one of the most adventurous in terms of complexity and in its method of separating the different functions of the house". 8a was depicted as the Draconian Embassy in scenes from the 1972 Doctor Who episode Frontier in Space, that were filmed at the house. The architecture critic Colin Amery wrote of 8a in a 1973 article for the Architects' Journal that it was " ... rare to find a house that succeeds as a dramatic piece of architecture and as a home. This house provides an infinite variety of spaces that can accommodate all sorts of uses. To do this it has not adopted some anonymous system, it still makes a strong statement. Imagination, craftsmanship and money have combined to create a most stimulating house". 8a was put up for sale in 2021 for £11.5 million.No. 10 was designed by the architect E. Vincent Harris as his personal residence and was completed in 1932. In 1953 Harris purchased an adjoining house, Southampton Lodge, which was subsequently demolished to extend his garden to the south west. Upon his death he left the house to the Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras for the benefit of its employees. It was sold by its successor, the London Borough of Camden, in 2001 and it reverted to a private house.The Elms on Fitzroy Park is also listed Grade II as is its entrance lodge, pedestrian entrance, and garden wall. The Elms was designed by George Basevi and built between 1838 and 1840. It has been subsequently altered.The average price of a property on Fitzroy Park was estimated at £5.1 million in 2021.The cardiologist Frances Gardner was a resident of Fitzroy Park at the time of her 1989 death.

Highpoint I
Highpoint I

Highpoint I was the first of two apartment blocks erected in the 1930s on one of the highest points in London, England, in Highgate. The architectural design was by the Georgian-British architect Berthold Lubetkin, the structural design by the Anglo-Danish engineer Ove Arup and the construction by Kier.Highpoint I was built in 1935 for the entrepreneur Sigmund Gestetner, but was never used for its intended purpose of housing Gestetner company staff. One of the best examples of early International style architecture in London, this block of 64 flats was very innovative in its day. When the building was completed, it became widely renowned as the finest example of this form of construction for residential purposes. When Corbusier himself visited Highpoint in 1935 he said, "This beautiful building .... at Highgate is an achievement of the first rank." And the American critic Henry Russell Hitchcock called it, "One of the finest, if not absolutely the finest, middle-class housing projects in the world." In 1970 this reputation gained official recognition when both Highpoint blocks were classified Grade I within the historic buildings listing programme.The second Lubetkin building in the same style, Highpoint II, was completed on an adjoining site in 1938. This is also a Grade I Listed Building.The gardens at Highpoint contain a swimming pool and two tennis courts. Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank selected Highpoint as one of his eight choices for the 2002 BBC book The Story of Britain's Best Buildings.