West Heath Road, London

In the early 1960’s Chaim Schreiber, a successful furniture manufacturer, wanted a spacious and well-equipped house for a family of five. He commissioned the influential Scottish architect James Gowan, who designed a building of such vision and quality that it remains fresh and exciting 65 years on.

Schreiber House was constructed on a magnificent elevated site facing Hampstead Heath. Externally its tall piers of rustic blue Staffordshire engineering brick give it an austere appearance yet inside the contrast could not be greater. The house is flooded with natural light through its soaring vertical windows. Throughout, the standards of workmanship are exceptional and the materials used of the highest quality. The house has been further enhanced by the present owners who have sympathetically updated the kitchens, bathrooms, plumbing and wiring.

Schreiber wanted maximum use made of durable natural materials. The floors are either San Stefano marble or Muhuhu hardwood and the pre-cast concrete ceilings are faced with Bath Stone. The north-south orientation of the house is used to full effect with uninterrupted views of the Heath to the north and a glorious south facing garden to the rear.
This is an exceptional house, commissioned by a visionary client whose success rested on his ability to understand the needs of modern families.

It was designed by one of the most influential architects of the day and built without compromise by C P Roberts & Co of the finest natural materials.

It is one of the few post-war houses to have been listed Grade II, and is undoubtedly one of London’s finest 20th Century residential buildings.