MY PROPERTY MANAGER LONDON AREA GUIDE TO HARROW

Harrow offers something for everyone, decent sized houses, looks of green parks, highly rated state and private schools, it’s an area is offers the perfect family package. 

Harrow Road stretch starts from Maida Vale, was once an uncrowded country lane passing through open farmland and up to the little village of Harrow on the Hill.

Today Harrow Road passes through the built-up areas of Kensal Green, Harlesden, Stonebridge Park and Wembley before arriving at the playing fields of Harrow School. The school is among the country’s leading public schools, and one of only a handful that has held to the tradition of educating boarding pupils only.

Harrow — oddly there is a South, West and North Harrow but no East — occupies a large suburban area north-west of the capital. The jewel in the crown is Harrow on the Hill, with its pretty, winding High Street, imposing school buildings and lanes of cottages perched on the hillside.

Harrow town centre lies to the north of Harrow on the Hill and 12 miles from central London, and in modern times the Metropolitan Tube line, rather than Harrow Road, has shaped the area.

In the Twenties and Thirties Harrow became commuter suburbs with streets of semi-detached and detached three and four bedroom houses, some influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement, others in mock Tudor or Art Deco styles.

While Harrow has plenty of these Metro-Land family homes, it also boasts pockets of Victorian terraces and modern town centre flats, while on the southern slopes of the hill there are large, detached Edwardian houses on spacious plots in private roads.

Best roads: 

Harrow on the Hill has a number of private roads, in particular Mount Park Road, where the most exclusive houses are found. Julian Hill, off Sudbury Hill, is another desirable address.

New-build homes in Harrow

At the Kodak factory site between Headstone Drive and Harrow View, north of the town centre, Harrow is about to see the largest new development for 50 years. Kodak has formed a joint venture with property company Land Securities. The plans now being consulted on include 985 (200 affordable) new homes, 135,000 square feet of new shops, a health centre and a three-form entry primary school. The scheme is expected to produce 1,500 new jobs and deliver ￡10 million-worth of infrastructure improvements.

There will also be new homes in the town centre. Comer Homes development Bradstowe House, half-finished and mothballed during the recession, is back on track to deliver a mixed-use scheme including one, two and three bedroom homes, while Redrow has bought the old HMRC building on Lyon Road that is due to be demolished to make way for new homes.

Up-and-coming areas: 

West Harrow is the bohemian quarter. The roads off Vaughan Road — home to the innovative Usurp art gallery and studios — have affordable Victorian terrace houses that sell for about ￡350,000.

The area attracts: 

Harrow is one of London’s most ethnically diverse areas and for many people, is seen as an aspirational place to live. Harrow Garden Village close to Rayners Lane Tube station is particularly popular. Semi-detached houses in these tree-lined streets with grass verges sell for between ￡400,000 and ￡450,000, while a detached house will cost ￡550,000 and upwards.

Postcodes: 

Harrow has three — HA1 covers Harrow on the Hill and is the most desirable; HA2 covers North and South Harrow, and HA3 covers Harrow Weald, Kenton and Wealdstone.

Travel: 

Harrow is served by the Tube and Overground trains. From Harrow & Wealdstone, trains to Euston take 14 minutes, while trains from Harrow on the Hill take 16 minutes to Marylebone.

Harrow & Wealdstone is on the Bakerloo London Underground line with trains to Oxford Circus taking 37 minutes. North Harrow, Harrow on the Hill and West Harrow stations are on the Metropolitan line, with the trip from Harrow on the Hill to Baker Street taking 21 minutes, and a scheduled 33 minutes to Moorgate. South Harrow and Sudbury Hill are on the Piccadilly line with trains from South Harrow taking 40 minutes to Piccadilly Circus.

All of the stations except for Sudbury Hill are in Zone 5 and an annual travelcard to Zone 1 costs ￡2,136. Sudbury Hill is in Zone 4 and an annual travelcard to Zone 1 costs ￡1,800.

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