Scope
Barnet is the planning authority here, and this page is built around two of its conservation areas, Church End and The Burroughs. Between them they cover only about 4.9 hectares, so the heritage figures describe a small, closely drawn area while the housing figures reach well beyond it into the surrounding streets.
Owners elsewhere in the district should read the conservation-area figures as context, not as a description of their own street. The North West London guide sets out the neighbouring areas.
Recorded facts for Church End and The Burroughs
Every statement below links to the public record it comes from; sources were re-checked on .
Church End and The Burroughs
Reference CA08, about 3.4 hectares and a designation date of 27 July 1983 are the details held for Hendon Church End in the national conservation-area data.
The second record, Hendon The Burroughs, is reference CA17, covers about 1.5 hectares and carries the same designation date.
Barnet has published documents for Church End and for The Burroughs, with a further document covering The Burroughs, and they are worth reading before any external change is designed.
Directions on The Burroughs
Two entries in the government's Article 4 direction data are named Article 4 for Hendon The Burroughs CA Area 1 and Article 4 for Hendon The Burroughs CA Area 2, and both have a recorded start date of 21 July 1987.
They cover about 3.6% and 2.2% of the combined study area respectively, so they reach parts of The Burroughs rather than every property there, which is why the Area 1 record and its companion are compared with the exact address.
A separate direction, Article 4 Small Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Area 1, covers the whole study area, but it deals with changes of use to small shared houses, not with the appearance of buildings.
Listing inside the two boundaries
Seventeen Grade II entries and two Grade II* entries, 19 in all, came back from the NHLE listed-building service for the two conservation areas in a query dated 1 November 2026.
Those two higher-graded entries are Church Farmhouse Museum and the Parish Church of St Mary.
Nineteen entries in under five hectares make listed status a live question for many addresses, so the entry for the building, or for the one next door, is read before alterations are scoped.
Gravel over London Clay
All five sample points share the same two layers in the BGS geological map at 1:50,000: sand and gravel of the Dollis Hill Gravel Member at the surface and, beneath it, London Clay Formation that the survey records as clay, silt and sand.
A gravel cap may drain well near the surface while the clay underneath still reacts to wetting and drying, so the BGS layers raise questions about foundation depth, nearby trees and drain condition rather than answering them.
How thick the gravel is under a particular house cannot be read from mapping at this scale, and only digging or boring on site would show it, which keeps the geological map in the role of background evidence.
Flood mapping
The Environment Agency planning map shows neither Flood Zone 2 nor Flood Zone 3 anywhere in the two conservation areas.
That planning map assumes no defences and cannot speak for one building, while rain-driven surface water is shown on the long term flood risk check, worth running for any basement or sunken garden.
Housing in three surrounding statistical areas
Three LSOAs surrounding the conservation areas (E01000244, E01000237 and E01000239) contain about 2,440 dwellings in Council Tax: stock of properties, 2025, which rounds each count to the nearest ten.
The build-period table shows 37.3% from 1919-1939, 25.8% from 1973-1999, 12.3% from 1900-1918, 9.0% from 1945-1972, 8.2% from 2000 onward, 7.4% from before 1900 and 0.4% of unknown date.
Flats or maisonettes make up 64.8% of dwellings, semi-detached houses 14.8%, terraced houses 11.9% and detached houses 8.2% in the same statistics, and 18.0% of dwellings are in bands F to H.
Those statistical areas extend far beyond the 4.9 hectares of the designations, so the VOA figures show the interwar and later stock around the conservation areas, not the buildings inside them.
Local guides for this part of Barnet
One instruction type per local page; beside each, a general page sets out the same service London-wide.
Surrounding areas
Next door, separate pages describe Colindale, Mill Hill, Golders Green, Childs Hill and Finchley; the North West London guide covers the region as a whole.
What owners in the two conservation areas ask
Which conservation areas does this page cover?
Two: Hendon Church End, about 3.4 hectares, and Hendon The Burroughs, about 1.5 hectares, both designated on 27 July 1983 according to the national record. An address outside both boundaries should be checked against the council's own conservation-area maps before any assumption is made either way.
What do the Burroughs Article 4 directions affect?
planning.data.gov.uk records two, named Article 4 for Hendon The Burroughs CA Area 1 and Area 2, both starting 21 July 1987. The works they restrict are set out in the directions themselves, so confirm with Barnet what the Area 1 direction or its companion covers before changing a frontage or roof.
Which entries here are Grade II*?
Church Farmhouse Museum and the Parish Church of St Mary are the two Grade II* entries. In total the national list returns 19 entries within the two conservation areas, with the remaining 17 at Grade II, all inside roughly 4.9 hectares.
Is the ground gravel or clay?
Both, on the published map. The BGS viewer shows sand and gravel of the Dollis Hill Gravel Member at all five sample points, sitting over London Clay. How deep the gravel goes beneath a given house is not shown, so any movement is judged on site against trees, drains and foundation depth.
Does the HMO direction matter to a buyer?
It can. A small HMO Article 4 direction covers the whole study area on planning.data.gov.uk, which is relevant if a house is being bought to let as shared accommodation. It does not control the appearance of buildings, so it adds nothing to the conservation-area position.
What should I mention when the property is a conversion?
Say which floor the flat is on, how long the lease has left and who manages the building, and send recent service charge accounts. A converted house and a purpose-built block give different access to the roof and shared parts, so knowing which it is shapes the visit.
How we work on an instruction
Hampstead Chartered Surveyors is a RICS-regulated firm (RICS Regulated Firm No. 923064) working from its registered Hampstead NW3 office. The firm does not claim premises, staff or completed instructions in an individual locality, and it does not treat a neighbourhood name as evidence about a particular building.
An instruction starts with the full address, the decision the client faces and the documents already available, such as leases, drawings, notices or earlier reports. The scope, fee and inspection date are confirmed in writing only after that review, and access to roofs, lofts, basements or common parts is agreed before the visit.
Reports include RICS Level 2 and Level 3 home surveys, building and defect investigations, party wall appointments, reinstatement cost assessments, contract administration and schedules of condition. Each report records what was inspected, what could not be seen and what further investigation the evidence supports.
Public datasets such as the conservation-area register, the National Heritage List for England, British Geological Survey mapping, the Environment Agency flood map and Valuation Office Agency housing statistics describe areas rather than individual properties. They frame questions before an inspection; they never replace it.
Reviewed by Savas Bulduk BSc (Hons) MRICS, Director & Chartered Building Surveyor at Hampstead Chartered Surveyors & Building Consultancy. Last reviewed: . Our people · RICS firm record