Belsize Avenue is a street in theBelsize Park area ofHampstead. Located in theLondon Borough of Camden, it runs fromHaverstock Hill westwards to a junction with Belsize Terrace andBelsize Park Gardens. It is the former carriageway approach toBelsize House, acountry estate that occupied the area until it was demolished in 1853 to allow residential development.[1] A number of houses in the street were built byWilliam Willett around 1873.[2]
At the junction of Belsize Avenue with Haverstock Hill is the formerHampstead Town Hall, nowGrade II listed.[3] Notable former residents of the streets have included the actorGordon Harker and the future Japanese Prime MinisterTakeo Fukuda.[4] In the 1930sHillfield Court, anart decoapartment block was built on previously undeveloped land, and the actressDiana Wynyard live there at one point. In the same decade some formertennis courts were developed into Tudor Close, featuringTudoresque architecture.[5]
The street continues westward under the nameBelsize Park until it reachesFitzjohns Avenue, built on an area that was part of the gardens of Belsize House. Belsize Square runs off the street by St. Peter's Church. Most of the street's original 1850s whitestucco buildings still survive.[6]
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