🏠 Indoor & outdoorEducationalGardensSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Limited parking
No visitor car park on site. Limited Blue Badge parking in the yard off Windmill Hill (NW3 6RT); email to reserve. Public cycle parking opposite the main gate on Hampstead Grove. Nearest Underground is Hampstead (Northern Line), about 300 yards uphill.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Fenton House and Garden is a 17th-century house on the hill at the top of Hampstead village, cared for by the National Trust. Its rooms hold a collection of early keyboard instruments, Oriental and European porcelain, needlework and 20th-century paintings. The garden is walled and includes lawns, a sunken rose garden, a kitchen garden and an orchard of heritage fruit trees, with gravel paths and some steps between its levels. Volunteer musicians play some of the historic instruments on open days, which can suit older children who enjoy music. Families with curious older children, or anyone interested in history, music and gardens, will find it worth a slow visit. It sits close to Hampstead Heath, so it pairs well with a walk afterwards.
Closed for the winter period; reopening stated as Spring 2027 on the operator's page.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Tissues
- Waterproof jacket
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
- Sun hat
- Hand sanitiser
- Bum bag
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