2 Willow Road
Hungarian-born architect Ernő Goldfinger's own modernist family home in Hampstead, designed and built by him in 1939 and preserved as the National Trust's first modernist property.
- Hidden gem
- Price: £ · Budget
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Did you know
Goldfinger lived here until his death in 1987, and the house still holds his and his wife Ursula Blackwell's genuine modern art collection, including works given to them personally by friends like Max Ernst, Man Ray and Lee Miller, real friendships, not curated acquisitions.
Local tip
It's a stark contrast to visit right after somewhere like Ham House or Fulham Palace. This is the same National Trust, but a raw concrete 1939 modernist house rather than centuries of ornate period interiors.
Finding it
- Address
- 2, Willow Road, South End Green, Belsize Park, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, NW3 1TH
- Nearest station
- Hampstead Heath (Overground), 303 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Keats HouseThe Hampstead house where poet John Keats lived from 1818 to 1820, writing Ode to a Nightingale and several of his other best-known poems, saved from demolition and opened as a museum in 1925.
- Hampstead Mixed Pond (Hampstead Heath Swimming Ponds)A Hampstead Heath swimming pond with lifeguards, changing rooms and showers, open to men and women together. The Highgate Men's Pond and Kenwood Ladies' Pond nearby are single-sex.
- Burgh House and Hampstead MuseumA Grade I listed Queen Anne house of 1704 in Hampstead's New End Square, home to a free local-history museum, a basement cafe and the world's largest collection of work by Helen Allingham.
- Ginger & WhiteA family-run café down a cobbled Hampstead alleyway, making its bread, cakes, and breakfasts from scratch every day.