Heath End House Heath End House And Evergreen Hill

This house, Heath End House and Evergreen Hill, dates back to around 1788, although it was largely rebuilt in 1923 by the novelist Sir Hall Caine. The rebuilding incorporated a wing from an earlier 18th-century house known as Erskine House. The building is now divided into two residences. The main part of the building is a painted weatherboarded range, with a later two-storey brick extension to the west. The south-western facing main elevation has three storeys and five windows. A wooden ground-floor verandah includes a balcony at first floor level. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars; one first-floor window at the east end has been replaced with a four-light window. Ground-floor windows have been altered. Cast iron window guards are present on the second-floor windows. A parapet tops the building. The interiors were not inspected during the listing process. Heath End House was the home of Dame Henrietta Barnett and Canon Samuel Barnett between 1889 and 1913; they were founders of Hampstead Garden City and a social reformer respectively, and a plaque commemorates their residence.