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North End, LONDON, NW3 7HR

19 North End, Hampstead, London NW3,where Michael Ventris (1922–56), the architect and decipherer of Linear B script, lived from 1953 to 1956.Designed by Ventris and his wife Lois, this simple brick-built house was built in 1952–3 and fitted out with furniture by Marcel Breuer. - information from English Heritage. Information about Linear B script may be found on Wikipedia.

This part of the farm is more recent than the Old Wyldes section to the left and was substantially restored by the architect Raymond Unwin from the barn that was added on to the original farmhouse. It is of brick with a massive dormer roof, looking older than it is.

The entrance to Hampstead Heath from North End.

A path to Wildwood Grove leads round the corner left of the bollards.

This plaque is of Greater London Council origin and proclaims that the landscape artist John Linnell lived here and that he had William Blake as a guest. The house looks like it belongs in a Constable painting.

The weatherboarded section of Wyldes Farm which adjoins to the right. The name goes back to the C15 when the farm owned a large estate of what was then open country. Much of this (purchased by Eton College) later went to form the Hampstead Heath Extension. The house became the home of artists and well-heeled bohemians: the painter John Linnell (1792-1882) lived here and was visited by Blake, Morland and Dickens; the Hampstead Fabian-turned-anarchist Charlotte Wilson (1854-1944) entertained Prince Peter Kropotkin and others here in the 1880s; and the architect of Hampstead Garden Suburb, Raymond Unwin, lived here from 1906 to his death in 1940.

Looking towards the junction with North End from the southern section of the avenue. The street lamp has been foxed by the leaves of the tree into thinking that dusk is falling - it's actually around midday.

An unmade private dead-end, but there is a through pedestrian way.

Old track passing Wyldes Farm in North End, coming from the direction of Hendon.