Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall

Frognal Farmhouse is a house, now used as a residential home, dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations in 1668 for Ralph Clerke and in the early 18th century for Sir Joseph Taylor. The rear range is timber-framed with exposed painted brick and plaster infill, and is partially clad in red brick. The front range is constructed of brickwork. The roof is plain tiled. The building comprises a four-bay late medieval hall house situated in a moated site, remodelled in 1668 with a parallel range added to the east in the early 18th century.

The front range has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, built on a plinth with a projecting centrepiece featuring a coved top and a moulded modillion eaves cornice. The left side has a half-hipped profile with a parapet incorporating a central segment-headed dormer and a flat 20th-century dormer on the right, plus a gabled knee and stack. The windows are regularly spaced: five C20 glazing bar sashes in box surrounds on the first floor, and four on the ground floor, each with segmental heads. The central front door is made of six raised and fielded panels with two glazed panels above, accessed by a flight of three steps with sweeping iron rails, and is set within a pilaster surround topped by a scrolled pediment on consoles. Basement openings are present on the left side.

The rear range is two storeys high and features four gables with bressummers carved with billet mould, crenellation, and vine motifs, with the centre left one dated 1668. The end left section has part-painted circular bracing. There are three stacks. A rebuilt porch with initials “N. G.” is located on the left side of the rear range.

The interior features an old screens passage leading from the porch, with arched doorways to the service area, and a possible remodelled crown post roof. An early 18th-century staircase rises in four flights around an open well, complicated by 20th-century fire screens, with a wreathed and moulded handrail, turned balusters, and banded pendants and finials.

A wall runs along the road to the east of the house. It is constructed of red brick in English bond, standing four feet high, sweeping down twice to the east of the house, on a plinth, and extending approximately 30 yards.