Frognal Grove Including Former Stable Range

Frognal Grove comprises a large house with a former stable block, now subdivided into four semi-detached houses. The main building was constructed circa 1745-50 by Henry Flitcroft for his own residence, with subsequent alterations and additions made over the years. Number 105 represents the original south-east range of the house; Number 107 constitutes the principal block; Number 109 underwent significant late 19th-century work and a 1926 extension; and Number 111 occupies the converted former stable range. The construction materials are painted brick with slated and tiled roofs.

Number 105 originally featured as a two-storey south-east range, with a third storey added in the mid-19th century by G.E. Street, who also added a porch and verandah to the west front. Number 107, the principal block, has a slated, hipped mansard roof incorporating dormers and a wooden, rectangular cupola with segmental openings, a hipped roof, and a weathervane. The design includes three storeys and an attic, displaying four windows to the front. An arched brick and timber pergola, erected before 1894, leads to an architraved doorway with panelled doors and cast-iron entrance gates. Stone detailing is visible at first-floor level, and the windows are characterized by gauged brick flat arches to the recessed sashes, with louvred shutters on the upper floors. A stone cornice and stone-coped brick parapet complete the exterior. Number 109 presents a three-storey facade with three windows, matching the style of Number 107. It was extended in the late 19th century and remodelled in 1926 for Mr and Mrs Ernest Joseph, featuring a wide, five-light canted bowed bay to the rear. Number 111, the northern former stable range, dates to the late 19th century, possibly incorporating some 18th-century elements and later 20th-century alterations. It features a tiled hipped roof with dormers and a gabled Diocletian window, maintaining a single-story design with attics. The building retains former entrances with open pediments and arched niches or fanlights above the doorways.

The interiors remain uninspected. The house’s history reveals that Henry Flitcroft acquired the copyhold of Frognal Grove in 1741 from Thomas Watson-Wentworth, Earl of Malton, replacing an earlier structure from circa 1700. Henry Flitcroft Junior subsequently leased the property, with notable tenants including Edward Montagu, Master in Chancery, residing between 1772 and circa 1794. The house then passed into the Street family, to whom Flitcroft’s great-granddaughter was married. The architect G.E. Street inherited the property in 1871-2 and was responsible for the alterations made. Formerly known as Montagu Lodge, Frognal Grove was subdivided into separate residences in the 1950s.