Asmuns Hill was the location for the first buildings in Hampstead Garden Suburb.
The Hampstead Garden Suburb was proposed to be built on part of land held by Eton College. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Act of 1906 formalised the conditions of the sale of college land and enabled the character of the area to be determined by the trustees and their architects, R.B. Parker and Raymond Unwin, with Sir Edwin Lutyens as consultant.
The first building of the new suburb was begun in 1907, near Asmuns Hill, by independent groups.
