Upper Frognal Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1974. Lodge.
Upper Frognal Lodge
- WRENN ID
- winding-spandrel-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Camden
- Constituency
- Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1974
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Upper Frognal Lodge, 103
- OS grid reference
- TQ 261 858
- Coordinates
- 51.55786, -0.18205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Frognal Lodge is a coach house that dates from around 1745 to 1750, originally built for Henry Flitcroft's house at Nos 105-111 Frognal, and is now a semi-detached house. The building has been altered in the early 19th century and late 20th century. It is constructed of stucco and has three storeys.
The front facing Frognal features two windows, while the main south garden and entrance front has three windows and a two-storey, two-window extension. The Frognal front includes recessed sash and casement windows with early 19th-century Gothic and later glazing. The first-floor windows are round-arched with a central niche and a cast-iron balcony, and the ground floor has a central sash window flanked by rusticated pilaster strips and a round-arched window to the right. The entrance on the south front is a 20th-century segmental arch with a fanlight, sidelight, and a half-glazed door. The first-floor windows are set in round-arched recesses.
Although the interior was not inspected, it is noteworthy that this building was the home of Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour Prime Minister, from 1925 to 1937, and during the 1950s, it was the residence of Donald Ogden Stewart, an American screenwriter and refugee from McCarthyism.
Local climate
Upper Frognal Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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