The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists (History of British Intelligence)

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Lawn Road and surrounding area has a larger than average concentration of residents that are degree educated or similar - 82% of the resident population.

This may have been influenced by how people perceived their health aginst the backdrop of the pandemic. The Isokon’s ground-floor bar became a well-known hangout for the local and émigré intelligentsia of the time.All distances are straightline distances, please consult the map of the facility to check the exact location. The small but well equipped flats also provided services such as cleaning and bed making and meals were available in the Isobar downstairs. Exclusively for the over 60s this attractive one bedroom ground floor apartment offers outside space and a walk-in wardrobe/study. Regular visitors to the Isobar included nearby residents Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.

In general, as people age, they move away from city centre addresses to suburbs, smaller towns and rural locations, so these areas often show a greater number of females, with inner-city areas showing the opposite trend. The building is now partly occupied by key workers under a shared-ownership scheme whilst the larger flats have been sold outright. The Isobar, the dining room and club on the ground floor, also attracted many interesting people including Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Naum Gabo and Serge Chermayeff. Plywood was used extensively in the fittings of the apartments; Jack Pritchard was marketing manager for the Estonian plywood company Venesta between 1926 and 1936, while he also operated the Isokon Furniture Company, originally in partnership with Wells Coates.

This area is fit as a fiddle, with over 92% of the population reporting themselves as being in Good or Very Good health at this address. It has easy access to huge amounts of green space, with Hampstead Heath to the north, and Primrose Hill and Regent’s Park to the south.

Apartment 10 at Belle Vue, Hampstead, is a superb two bedroom apartment situated on the ground floor with a private balcony. Early example of monolithic reinforced concrete construction not used on this scale for domestic purposes in Britain before. Lawn Road, Camden, London, NW3 2AW is within the Gospel Oak policing neighbourhood, under the Metropolitan Police Service force area. Designs for the flats were developed between 1929–1932 and the complex opened on 9 July 1934 [2] as an experiment in minimalist urban living.

There was a communal kitchen for the preparation of meals, connected to the residential floors via a dumb waiter (which meant that most of the flats had small galley kitchens). Download the Moovit App to find live directions (including where to get off on Lawn Road), see timetables and get the estimated arrival times for your favourite Tube, Bus or Train lines. This address in Hampstead and Kilburn constituency is broadly in line with those figures, with 48% male. Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of Land Registry under delegated authority from the Controller of HMSO. David Burke is a historian of intelligence and international relations and author of The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage and Russia and the British Left: From the 1848 Revolutions to the General Strike.

The first block ever to be built chiefly using reinforced concrete, it was the subject of an exemplary restoration by Avant Architects in 2004. On the other side of Lawn Road, the southern half is more informal with some native shrub planting and seating with unhindered views of Thomas Lewis Way and the industrial estate beyond. Coates was inspired by Le Corbusier, who believed that buildings should be “machines for living”, and as a result the 32 flats were designed to create the greatest possible utility and comfort out of constricted dimensions. For Scotland, 2011 data is shown (update coming soon, the Scottish census was delayed by a year unlike the rest of the UK). Please always check the EPC Register total floor area against any floorplan for the property in case of differences.The design had to deal with this demanding context to create a high quality building that respects both the adjoining conservation area and the Grade 1 Isokon building. SNF give notice that these particulars are produced in good faith, are set out as general rule and do not constitute any part of a contract.