Renovations in Muswell Hill, N10.

Building in Muswell Hill.

Muswell Hill was built almost in one go between 1896 and 1914, which is why it is so coherent: wide avenues of red-brick Edwardian houses with tiled paths, stained glass and generous rooms, radiating from the Broadway. The houses are large, the gardens are long and the roofs have room to convert.

It is a family-house market, and the projects match: side-return and rear extensions for open-plan kitchens, loft conversions with rear dormers, and refurbishments that keep the Edwardian detail while renewing everything behind it.

The Muswell Hill Conservation Area covers the Edwardian centre and the avenues around it.