Cloth Hill
House in London, England
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Cloth Hill at 6 the Mount is a 17th-century house in Hampstead in north London.
It was built c.1694 as two houses but subsequently combined as a single residence.[1][2] The house is believed to be the second-oldest house in Hampstead after Fenton House.[3] It was the residence of Quaker cloth merchant William Beech shortly after its completion. Voltaire visited Andrew Pitt, Beech's son-in-law at the house in 1728.[3] It was separated again in 1801. In the late 19th-century half of the house was occupied by The Mount School with the other half the residence of the publisher Edward Bell.[2] The entrance gate of Cloth Hill is depicted in Ford Madox Brown's 1865 painting Work. A sign in the painting shows the house for sale as a "genteel family residence".[3]
The centre block of the house dates from 1694 with the northern wing dating from the early 17th-century.[2] The 1998 London North edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides describes it as a "fine mansion".[1] It has been listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England since August 1950.[2]
In 1993 it was for sale for offers under £1 million. In 2025 it was for sale for £18 million with the estate agencies Savills and Marcus Parfitt.[4] Writing in Country Life, Carla Passino noted that the price of the property had risen more than nine times higher than would have been ordinarily expected with inflation.[3] The house had only three owners in the 140 years preceding 2025.[3]