Belsize Park

Belsize Park station opened in 1907 on the Northern Line in the London Borough of Camden, its surface building a Grade II-listed example of the Arts and Crafts style by architect Leslie Green. Green's signature ox-blood red terracotta tiles — applied across a cohesive family of early Tube stations he designed — make the Haverstock Hill entrance immediately recognisable among London's street-level architecture. At roughly 55 metres below street level and served only by escalators with no lifts, it is among the deeper and least accessible stops on the line, a fact that gives the station a certain hushed, unhurried character even during peak hours. During the Second World War the tunnels were used as air-raid shelters, one of many deep-level Tube stations repurposed for civilian protection across the city.