
Isokon building – credit: Nick Kane
Belsize buildings have hosted many people of note, from literary figures via members of the entertainment arts, engineers, and psychoanalysts, to those of a political persuasion, one of whom is notorious for being the only British prime minister to be assassinated.
We have included residents from the wider Belsize area as some people may like to plan a walk based on the locations of certain plaques such as the Belsize Blue Plaque walk here. Most of the plaques are blue and placed by English Heritage, but others such as the Hampstead Plaque Fund, also erect plaques.

English Heritage plaque – credit: Historic England
Nearly a quarter of the list below, shows that by far the largest group choosing to live in Belsize, consisted of artists; Arthur Rackham, Duncan Grant, Piet Mondrian, Ben Nicholson and Walter Sickert amongst others. Novelists and poets, e.g. Jerome K Jerome and Hugo Manning; playwrights, actors and directors including Alan Ayckbourn, RIchard Burton and Alexander Korda; composers and musicians – Elgar, Clara Butt and “Hutch”; designers and sculptors such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and architects, one of these last being Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus design movement which combined crafts and fine arts.
Address | No. | Resident | Occupation |
Adamson Road | 14 | Robert Bevan | artist |
Adelaide Road | 91 | William de Morgan | ceramic artist |
Antrim Mansions | 22 | James Agate | drama critic |
Avenue Road | 81 | Sir Alexander Korda | film producer |
Belsize Avenue | 45 | Gordon Harker | actor |
56 | Sir James Stirling | architect | |
Hillfield Court | 104 | Diana Wynyard | actor |
Belsize Crescent | 13 | Berthold Goldschmidt | composer |
20 | Leslie Hornby (Twiggy) | fashion model | |
Belsize Grove | 18 | Sir Richard Rogers | architect |
Belsize House | Spencer Percival | prime minister | |
Belsize Park | 41 | Jerome K Jerome | novelist |
Belsize Park Gardens | 6 | Lytton Strachey | artist/critic |
27 | Henry Brailsford | journalist | |
44 | Frederick Delius | composer | |
53 | Tom Eckersley | poster artist & graphic designer | |
76 | Elisabeth Lutyens | composer | |
Belsize Square | 27 | Miles Malleson | actor |
46 | Hugo Manning | poet | |
Buckland Crescent | 15 | Evelyn Rothwell | musician |
Chalcot Gardens | 16 | Arthur Rackham | artist |
Chalcot Crescent | 37 | Jose Rizal | writer & national hero of Philippines |
Downside Crescent | 4 | H W Nevinson | essayist |
4 | C R W Nevinson | artist | |
Eldon Grove | 1 | William Dobson | artist |
Elsworthy Road | 4 | Henry Wood | musician |
Elsworthy Terrace | 9 | Agnes Arber | botanist |
Eton College Road | ? | James Cameron | TV journalist |
Eton Road | 84 | R D Laing | psychiatrist |
Eton Villas | 1 | Sir John Summerson | architectural historian |
9 | Alfred Stevens | architect | |
Fellows Road | 84 | James Aumonier | artist |
143 | Duncan Grant | artist | |
155 | Sir Arnold Bax | composer | |
Glenloch Road | 32 | Alan Ayckbourn | playwright |
Glenmore Road | 43 | Robert Powell | actor |
Harley Road | 7 | Clara Butt | singer |
Haverstock Hill | 43 | Stephen Bone | artist |
53 | Mark Gertier | artist | |
site of 145 | Robert Stephenson | railway engineer | |
160 | William Empson | writer | |
? | Phil May | illustrator/cartoonist | |
King Henry’s Road | 10 | Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar | Indian Crusader for Social Justice</td > |
Howitt Road | 9 | Ramsay Macdonald | prime minister |
Lawn Road | Isokon | Marcel Breuer | architect/furniture design |
Agatha Christie | novelist | ||
Naum Gabo | artist | ||
Walter Gropius | architect/founder Bauhaus | ||
Philip Harben | cook | ||
Laszio Moholy-Nagy | artist | ||
Nicholoas Montserrat | novelist | ||
Adrian Stokes | artist | ||
jack Pritchard | furniture design/builder Isokon | ||
84 | John Logie Baird | television pioneer | |
Lyndhurst Road | 6 | Richard Burton | actor |
Maresfield Gardens | 4 | Cecil Sharp | collector of folk songs |
20 | Anna Freud | psychoanalyst | |
Sigmund Freud | psychoanalyst | ||
Netherhall Gardens | 1 | Beatrice Webb | political reformer |
Sidney Webb | founder New Statesman | ||
site of 42 | Edward Elgar | composer | |
51 | John P Edward | journalist | |
Ornan Road | 2 | David Devant | magician |
Parkhill Road | 7 & 11 | Henry Moore | sculptor |
54 | Charles Orchardson | artist | |
60 | Piet Mondrian | artist | |
Parkhill Road | Mall Studios | George Clausen | artist |
Walter Sickert | artist | ||
Barbara Hepworth | sculptor | ||
Ben Nicholson | artist | ||
Sir Herbert Read | writer and artist | ||
Sir James Linton | artist | ||
Robert McBeth | artist | ||
Cecil Stephenson | artist | ||
Primrose Hill Road | 4 | Fred Terry | actor/manager |
8 | Adelina Patti | singer | |
32 | Helen Waddell | writer/translator | |
Steele’s Cottage | Sir Richard Steele | dramatist/essayist | |
Steele’s Road | 31 | Leslie Hutchinson | singer & pianist |
Steele’s Studios | 1 | CRW Nevinson | artist |
David Bomberg | artist | ||
Upper Park Road | 44 | Thomas Danby | artist |
Wedderburn Road | 4 | Barry Humphries | actor/comedian |