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On Arkwright Road, in Fitzjohns & Royal Free
What it's like at NW3 6BJ: every home that has sold on Arkwright Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
5 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Arkwright Road; planning applications within 500 m (Planning London Datahub); new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
8 of the 95 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| Flat 5, 27, Arkwright RoadFlat | Jun 2000 | £218,000 | 53 m² | £4,113/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 8, 27, Arkwright RoadFlat | May 2021 | £900,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Flat 1, 27, Arkwright RoadFlat | Mar 2007 | £485,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Flat 6, 27, Arkwright RoadFlat | Jul 2024 | £595,000 | 55 m² | £10,818/m² | 1 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 33, Arkwright RoadFlat | Sept 2004 | £500,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 33a, Arkwright RoadFlat | Jul 2006 | £350,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Flat 1, 35, Arkwright RoadFlat | Apr 2021 | £1,455,950 | 132 m² | £11,030/m² | 2 |
| Flat B, 37 - 39, Arkwright RoadFlat | Jul 1997 | £168,000 | – | – | 2 |
| Flat A, 37 - 39, Arkwright RoadFlat | Feb 2001 | £265,000 | 67 m² | £3,955/m² | 5 |
| Flat H, 37 - 39, Arkwright RoadFlat | Jul 2001 | £230,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Flat M, 37 - 39, Arkwright RoadFlat | Oct 2008 | £465,000 | 71 m² | £6,549/m² | 3 |
| Flat D, 37 - 39, Arkwright RoadFlat | Dec 2003 | £227,500 | 54 m² | £4,213/m² | 3 |
| Flat L, 37 - 39, Arkwright RoadFlat | Apr 2019 | £800,000 | 119 m² | £6,723/m² | 1 |
| 41, Arkwright RoadSemi-detached · company-owned | Jul 1997 | £215,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Arkwright RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2015 | £4,850,000 | 445 m² | £10,899/m² | 2 |
| Flat 3, 45, Arkwright RoadFlat | Jun 2015 | £596,000 | 56 m² | £10,643/m² | 2 |
| Flat 5, 45, Arkwright RoadFlat | Sept 2001 | £272,000 | 54 m² | £5,037/m² | 3 |
| Flat 2, 45, Arkwright RoadFlat | Nov 2004 | £245,000 | – | – | 3 |
| Flat 4, 45, Arkwright RoadFlat | May 2015 | £555,000 | 45 m² | £12,333/m² | 3 |
| Flat 1, 45, Arkwright RoadFlat | Nov 2000 | £485,000 | – | – | 1 |
| Flat 6, 45, Arkwright RoadFlat | Jun 2004 | £249,000 | 49 m² | £5,082/m² | 1 |
| Flat 3, 47, Arkwright RoadOther | Feb 2020 | £592,000 | 58 m² | £10,207/m² | 5 |
| Flat 4, 47, Arkwright RoadFlat | Jan 2022 | £1,145,000 | 102 m² | £11,225/m² | 2 |
| Ground Floor Flat, 47, Arkwright RoadFlat | Apr 2013 | £1,615,000 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 64% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Finchley Road & Frognal, a few minutes' walk (150 m), with 1.9m journeys a year; its busiest route is to Highbury and Islington.
The nearest bus stop is Finchley Road & Frognal Station, 100 m away, with a bus about every 3 minutes on weekdays (routes 113, 13, A6, A31); 178 departures an hour from the 9 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Rail is a big part of life: 11% of workers commuted by train or Tube.
Plenty of jobs are close by: somewhere with 5,000 or more jobs (a town centre, business park or big hospital) is about 11 minutes away by public transport or on foot.
Central London is 6 km away as the crow flies.
59% of households manage without a car.
The nearest primary school is Fitzjohn's Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 81% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Christ Church Primary School, Hampstead (1 km), with 6 rated strongly by Ofsted within 2 km.
The nearest secondary is The UCL Academy, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 45.9 · 14.8% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Parliament Hill School (1.9 km) and Paddington Academy (3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: The Henrietta Barnett School (3.6 km) and St Michael's Catholic Grammar School (7.2 km).
The nearest supermarket is Aldi, 350 m away, with Berezka Shop closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Gray'S Inn Medical Group Hampstead (650 m), with Dales Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (500 m).
For a haircut, Rock Barbers is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is The Royal Free Hospital, 650 m away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 70% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 14 weeks).
Evenings out are on the doorstep: 45 restaurants and cafés and 5 pubs and bars in the neighbourhood.
Camden Arts Centre Cafe is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and Slawek Kitchen the nearest pub (600 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (11 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 205 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
68 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Building | Grade | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Camden Arts Centre and Attached Piers and Wall | II | 100 m |
| Number 28 and Attached Boundary Walls and Piers | II | 120 m |
Grade I and II* are the most important few per cent. Listing means consent is needed for most changes, inside and out. Contains Historic England data © Historic England 2026 (via planning.data.gov.uk), OGL.
Hampstead and Highgate constituency: Tulip Siddiq MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 14,970 (30.8%), turnout 61%. Vote shares: Labour 48%, Conservative 17%, Green Party 14%, Liberal Democrat 13%.
70 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near NW3 6BJ →
Much of it is protected: 74% of postcodes sit in a conservation area (Fitzjohns Netherhall, Belsize).
There are 56 listed buildings.
Homes are mostly flats (87%).
Most homes are Victorian or Edwardian: 61% were built before 1919.
The nearest park is Lithos Road Communal Park, 350 m away; for exercise, Tokia (350 m).
The beach is on your doorstep: Hampstead Heath (Mixed Pond), 1.3 km away, was rated excellent for water quality in 2025.
The air is city air: background nitrogen dioxide is 21.4 µg/m³, well above the WHO guideline of 10.
For holidays, London City is 16 km away, and London Heathrow, with far more destinations, 21 km.
Many neighbours rent: 47% of households rent privately and 17% socially.
It's highly educated: 74% of adults have a degree.
The nearest university is Regent's University London, 3.4 km away (TEF Silver).
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Nearest 8 shown. Plaques recorded by Open Plaques (openplaques.org), a volunteer project; its data is public domain. Not every plaque is recorded.
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police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 95 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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On this street: 0 of 39 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.8% | 1.1% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 79.9% | 67.0% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.0% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.2% | 8.4% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 15.2% | 23.5% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
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