Wyldes Farm

Wyldes Farm is a Grade II* listed former farmhouse in the hamlet of North End, Hampstead, in the London Borough of Barnet (right on the boundary with Camden), NW11.

Among those who came to see him at Wyldes were Harrison Ainsworth, Hablot Browne (also known as Phiz), Daniel Maclise, and his future biographer and friend John Forster.

In her history of the house, Mrs Wilson lists some of the other visitors including Annie Besant, Olive Schreiner, Ford Madox Brown, and Havelock Ellis.

In 1886 Mrs Wilson parted company with the Fabians and, with Prince Peter Kropotkin, founded The Freedom Group of anarchists.

In 1895 she quit the movement, and started a programme of repairs and alterations to the house and barn, incorporating it fully into a single property.

The designer of the garden suburb was the architect and town planner Raymond Unwin, who lived in Wyldes until his death in 1940, using the barn as his office.

During his time he welcomed to Wyldes many distinguished guests including Edwin Lutyens, Jan Smuts and Paul Robeson.