3 and 3a, Hampstead Hill Gardens

This is a detached studio house, now divided into two dwellings at 3 and 3A Hampstead Hill Gardens. It was built in two phases between 1877 and 1881 by Batterbury & Huxley for the illustrator Charles Green. It is constructed of red brick with a plain first-floor band. The roofs are tiled, hipped and have segmental-pedimented dormers. There are very tall slab chimney stacks and a coved eaves cornice.

The house is two storeys and has attics. The front has an irregular facade with two windows to each section. The right-hand portion was originally built as a studio with chambers below. It features a round-arched entrance with rubbed brick and Ionic pilasters supporting a pediment, above a panelled door with a fanlight. To the right of the entrance is a projecting bay with Venetian-style transom and mullion windows set in rubbed brick cases to both the ground and first floors. The first-floor window has a festooned frieze and pediment, and a narrow window is to the right again. The dormer above the entrance features an oculus supported by scrolled consoles. A rubbed brick plaque dated 1877 is above the entrance. The left-hand bay projects, with the base of the right-hand bay converted into a garage. Gauged brick flat arches are above the transom and mullion casements, with undulating brick aprons below the first-floor windows. All windows have small leaded panes.

The interior was noted at the time of the survey to contain a fine contemporary staircase, although it has not been inspected recently. Charles Green was an illustrator for publications including 'The Graphic' and 'Once a Week'.