Pergola House Hampstead

The pergola is one of the hidden delights of hampstead heath.

Pergola house hampstead. Hampstead pergola began with just a house. The pergola was the product of william h lever later lord leverhulme who made his fortune from selling soap. You may not have heard the news but hampstead really is rather lovely. However it s still easy to reach from hampstead so in this hampstead travel guide and hampstead blog i m going to tell you how to visit the hampstead heath pergola.

It is essentially a raised walkway overgrown with vines and exotic flowers and is set amidst some wonderfully dramatic gardens. Things to do near hill garden pergola. Burgh house hampstead museum. Known as the hill it was purchased by william h lever later lord leverhulme in 1904.

Nature parks in london. However the most beautiful part of hampstead is also the most criminally underrated. I say just but it s a pretty substantial one. When lever purchased hill house the garden was on steeply sloping ground and mawson levelled the site into terraces providing terrace gardens in front of the house a level lawn and a pergola around the west and south sides of the garden in 1906.

Having become monumentally rich he purchased the hill a large house on hampstead. The terraces were constructed with the spoil from the hampstead tube excavation. Yes you heard me right. While you ve been tramping across the expanses of the heath and soaking up the view from parliament this little gem has been sitting just around the corner.

Hampstead pergola is a wonderful example of faded grandeur and is undeniably one of london s hidden treasures. With cute shops fancy coffee shops and hampstead heath next door you re spoiled for choice on a visit here. The pergola hill garden in hampstead is located in the north western part of hampstead heath across the road and closer to golders green than hampstead village. Hairy goat photography tours.

Leverhulme made his fortune in soap manufacturing and had become an arts patron dabbling in architecture and landscape gardening. Walk eat talk eat. Just across from the main body of hampstead heath you will find one of london s most ethereal spots hampstead hill gardens and pergola. Hampstead pergola is full of rundown splendour.