Beatrix's flat in Highgate 1935

In a search to find out where Bea was buried I came across this photo of the interior of her flat in 1935 in Highgate. (Oddly 1935 was when she was mostly abroad.) The website also has several other pictures of the building.  They look rather like ugly modern box apartments. But neat to see all the books.

https://www.architecture.com/image-library/RIBApix/gallery-product/poster/highpoint-one-north-hill-highgate-london-period-furniture-in-miss-beatrix-lehmanns-flat/posterid/RIBA8749.html?tab=print

It turns out many things were written about these flats though. Including this pamphlet at the NAL that includes floor plans and prices. “Highpoint, Highgate” (London : s.n. [1935] (printed by Lund Humphries & Co) : [16] p. : ill., plans ; 23 cm).  NAL pressmark 807.AR.0003.

If Beatrix was renting it explained why she only stayed there 5 years. She moved in late 1935 and had moved out by the end of WWII when she had moved to Kensington and Chelsea.

The rents on the two bedroom flat were £145-175 a year. (This equates to £11,000 a year in modern money which is ridiculously cheap for those flats in that area now but is a significant amount for a mostly out of work actress). The most recent price I saw for a two bedroom was 950,000. A studio going for 400,000 (when originally there were no studios). A price from 2012 lists a 2 bedroom as between 500k and 6000k. The joys of London housing!

Another book mentions that the Woolfes were thinking of moving there as they had indoor plumbing and central heating. There are a lot of articles about the architecture of the flats as they were the first big modern high rise.