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Could someone teleport this house to NW3 with the same price tag please?

Apex Drive was designed by Laurie Abbott in 1966. Abbott, who until his recent retirement was a senior director at the Richard Rogers Partnership, has been an instrumental figure on some of the most significant architectural achievements of the 20th century, including the Pompidou Centre and Lloyd’s of London. The development was built by the Apex Society, founded in 1965, to provide ‘affordable housing in Greater London and the Home Counties’.

The apartments were sold off under a scheme that allowed the occupants to purchase 45 per cent of their property, and each applicant had to be accepted onto the scheme under strict qualifying guidelines. By 1981, the rules were relaxed and people were allowed to buy their properties outright and sell them on as they wished.

The development is made up of eight blocks, each containing four apartments. They were originally known as ‘the upside down houses’, as they incorporated an upstairs kitchen and a downstairs sitting room. The properties are built from grey brick and white mortar which contains sparkly quartz. Each block is a square, divided by a kind of flattened S-shaped wall which produces an interesting internal curved wall for each apartment, ending with a curved window where it meets the outside wall. The guttering is hidden within the fabric of the walls.