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Architecture in Hampstead.

North London · N2 · North London house, reconfigured and fitted outCompleted work, photograph

Architecture for Hampstead family houses on the slope. The hill and the groundwater set the brief below ground.

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Hampstead, designed for the slope.

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Georgian and Victorian houses on the hill
2025
Neighbourhood plan adds groundwater tests
Burland 1
The cap on damage next door

NU Projects is a design and build company in Fulham SW6, founded in 2010. We handle architecture and planning drawings in Hampstead NW3, under one contract. The calculator gives your own range in a minute, by scope and finish. Call 020 7731 6841, and a budget estimate typically follows within seven days.

Hampstead’s houses sit on a hill, many looking over the heath. Most are Georgian or Victorian family houses. The garden matters as much as the rooms.

The slope and the groundwater shape anything drawn below ground. Camden wants an audited Basement Impact Assessment before it decides.

Above ground, Camden asks for retrofit to be strongly considered before demolition. Policy DH1 keeps extensions subservient to the house.

Original windows, doors and walls are protected by Policy DH2. We survey them before proposing change.

We have not built in Hampstead yet. Our nearest work is a North London house, reconfigured and fitted out.

What the council allows in Hampstead.

Council
London Borough of Camden, under its 2017 Local Plan. The hill adds its own tests.
One storey
Policy A5. One storey only, and never under an existing basement.
Impact
A Basement Impact Assessment, independently audited. Neighbour damage is capped at Burland category 1.
Hampstead plan
The 2025 Hampstead Neighbourhood Plan adds groundwater and tree tests.
Extensions
Policy DH1. Extensions stay subservient. New dormers are modest, set back and ideally at the rear.
Original features
Policy DH2. Original windows, doors and walls are protected, or restored.

Source: Camden Local Plan 2017, Camden’s Basements guidance 2021, and the Hampstead plan 2025. Read on 5 October 2026. Policies change, so we read them again for your address.

Our nearest work in North London.

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North London house, reconfigured and fitted out

A North London house nearby, reconfigured and fitted out. Our nearest work to Hampstead.

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Completed work, photographs

What architectural design costs in Hampstead.

Architecture is priced per project, from a survey and the brief.

Below ground studies on the hill are priced separately, before design.

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What does an audited Basement Impact Assessment mean for a Hampstead design?

Camden has the assessment checked independently, at the applicant’s cost.

Damage to neighbours is capped at Burland category 1.

How does the Hampstead hill change an architect’s drawings?

Groundwater and the slope shape anything below ground.

The 2025 neighbourhood plan adds its own groundwater and tree tests.

Must a Hampstead extension stay smaller than the house?

Yes. Policy DH1 keeps extensions subservient.

New dormers are modest, set back and ideally at the rear.

Have you designed a house near Hampstead?

Our nearest is a 3,500 sq ft North London house.

We reconfigured its structure and fitted it out, finishing in 2017.

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