Good transport links have traditionally been one of the strengths of High Barnet, which is also known as Chipping Barnet or just plain Barnet.
The high street is on the Great North Road, once the main highway between London and Edinburgh and some of the old coaching inns still stand.
Today, the A1 runs to the west, the M25 is 15 minutes away, and the station is at the end of a branch of the Northern line.
There are excellent schools, lots of green spaces to explore, and parts of Monken Hadley – just to the north and the site of a major battle in the Wars of the Roses – still feel very rural.
There are more than 80 listed buildings in High Barnet, including 16th, 17th and 18th-century cottages in the Wood Street conservation area at the top of Barnet Hill, and handsome Georgian villas overlooking the common in Monken Hadley.
You’ll also find 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, modern and new-build homes spread across the area. ‘It’s geared up for families as it’s littered with houses, with first-time buyer-properties to the south side of the Tube station,’ says Barrie Christophi of Barnard Marcus. ‘One-bedroom flats start at £300,000-ish and three-bedroom houses from about £550,000.’
What’s new in the area?
Those eager to take advantage of Help to Buy before it ends should hotfoot their way to High Barnet.
At Brook Valley Gardens, Countryside is regenerating the former Dollis Valley Estate and delivering 631 new homes across five phases.
A few roomy two-bedroom apartments are left in phase three, just 12 minutes’ walk from High Barnet Tube station and including parking and private outside space. From £465,000 and Help to Buy is available.
Lightfield, from Shanly Homes, consists of eight townhouses and 50 apartments tucked away behind the high street. All the apartments have underfloor heating, an open-plan kitchen, living and dining area and integrated Siemens and Zanussi appliances, and most include a balcony or terrace, from £395,000 with Help to Buy.
The three-storey townhouses feature three double bedrooms and a study/fourth bedroom, a ground-floor kitchen/dining room opening onto the garden via bifold doors and a first-floor living room with a balcony, from £995,000 through Hamptons.
Nursery Row, also just off the high street, contains a small scheme of one and two-bedroom apartments and two-bedroom mews houses, all with different layouts and a balcony or patio garden, from £415,000, with Statons. And three two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartments, complete with balconies remain in nearby Salisbury Road, from £535,000 with Help to Buy, also from Statons.
Everything new buyers need to know about High Barnet
Average house price: £753,028
Average rent: £1,659 pcm
Council tax (Band D): £1,746.29
Commuting time to Zone 1 (Zone 4): 28 mins to King’s Cross St Pancras or Euston
Annual Travelcard (Zone 5): £2,628
Open space: Hadley Green; Monken Hadley Common; Ravenscoft Park; Whitings Hill Open Space; The Old Court House Recreation Ground; King George’s Fields; the London Loop walk runs through High Barnet.
Schools: Above average GCSE and A-level results; virtually all schools judged as outstanding or good by Ofsted; Queen Elizabeth’s, a boys’ grammar founded in 1573, is one of the country’s top secondaries.
Crime: Well below average.
Who lives there? Families and increasingly, first-time buyers.
Schools, crime and house price data supplied by Zoopla.
What’s on the property ladder?
£280,000
This freshly reduced one-bed, first-floor flat is one of only five in a small block moments from the high street and has a dual-aspect kitchen/living/dining room.
Check it out via Martyn Gerrard.
£650,000
A well-maintained, three-bedroom semi-detached house convenient for the station and shops, and with potential to extend at the back and into the loft.
Check it out via Barnard and Marcus.
£17.5million
Hadley House, on Hadley Green, is a 17,000sq ft Georgian manor house with 16 acres of land, previously owned by the family of the poet Lord Alfred Tennyson.
Check it out via Beauchamp Estates and Statons.
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