Heath House in North End Way has been empty for the best part of four decades – but Camden Council thinks its owners are set to restore it as a family home.
Jenny King lived at Heath House as a teenager
- Credit: Philip Halling (cc-by-sa/2.0)/Jenny King You could see six counties on a good, clear day.
Living in Heath House, the remarkable mansion on the edge of Hampstead Heath, was a wonderful experience , Jenny King told this newspaper.
The property remains covered in scaffolding and bears a developer s signs (declaring it Heath Park ), but it was a different story in the 1970s.
Jenny, now a psychologist, lived there during her teenage years. Her father Peter, who owned the film industry publication Screen International, bought the property in 1971 for £140,000.
In 1977, the Ham&High s Heathman s Diary covered the sale of Heath House