One of Primrose Hill’s best houses is on sale for £6.35 million

Encircling The Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill, Prince Albert Road straddles two of north London’s most desirable postcodes. NW8 is the quieter, more stately neighbourhood, while NW1 — edging into Chalk Farm and Camden Town — is a sprightlier area, abuzz with good shops, good coffee and (at least this time of year) a wealth of pollinators. You get it: it’s green. It’s sexy. There is a park with hilltop views of London’s skyline and lovely pubs, as well as some of the best Middle Eastern bakeries anywhere in the city.

Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch used to live here, as did Jude Law and Sadie Frost, Noel Gallagher, and Kate Moss. They’ve moved on now, which is just as well, because they held very loud parties during school nights which their neighbours found annoying. Yet the ton still flocks here at the weekend during daylight hours, to keep things interesting. Good news for prospective residents keen to dip their toe in the spotlight and leave it at that.

But how to capture such a sentiment through architecture and interiors? What does a house that dips a toe into the spotlight, but is just as content retreating from view, look like? Chic, that’s what. And on Prince Albert Road, no less. The Camden end, obviously. The fun end.

All of which leads us to this house, on sale for £6.35 million with Ian Green Residential, and one of the finest houses to hit the Primrose Hill market in years. Six bedrooms, three bathrooms, off-street parking and a whopping 3,581 sq ft of space.

The facade is classic white stucco, shrouded in foliage — a large olive tree in the front garden and a magnolia-lined walkway to the front door give the feel of an oasis — and one enters to find a majestic hallway dressed with grey marble floors, statement artworks and high ceilings, which are present throughout the house.

Natural light is abundant, too, with no fewer than three windows enshrining the principal living room, which retains original cornicing.

The floorboards are reclaimed wood, in a handsome, greyish brown, and an eight-foot-tall bookcase offers an elegant transition into the kitchen and dining room (the table easily sits eight people).

It does so through a door-sized gap that serves as a kind of architectural interregnum. The wooden floors flow seamlessly from one room into the other, just as the gardens flow seamlessly around the house.

The kitchen itself is decked out in just the right amount of white marble and stainless steel, while a smart, stripy runner fixed to the white-painted staircase leads up the sleeping quarters, which include built-in wardrobes and original fireplaces. There is yet more cornicing here, but the decor has broadly been kept to a minimum, to the Feng-shui clean and flowing.

The principal bathroom stands out, in particular, with abundant light and mirrors giving the illusion that the proportions are even more handsome than they already are. Life hack, etc.

A cast-iron decorative trellis, painted white, makes for a statement transition to the top floor, where further bedrooms await. It lends an art nouveau parenthesis to an otherwise classically designed home, with all the contemporary amenities and reupholstering to boot.

If it wasn’t already the perfect house: there’s more. Transport links, a make-or-break factor for anyone shopping around the city, are exceptional: Chalk Farm, the nearest station, is on the northern line (two stops to Euston and three to King’s Cross) while the Jubilee Line, which takes one straight to Westminster, Southwark and, beyond that, to Canary Wharf, is also nearby: a walk across the hill to St John’s Wood or Swiss Cottage stations. A particularly inviting commute, at this time of year.

For sale via Ian Green Residential — see more details.