One Oak, Frognal

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One Oak at 16 Redington Road in the Frognal area of Hampstead, London NW3, is a detached house built in 1889 by the architect Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo. The house has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since January 1999. [1]

The house was designed by Mackmurdo for a Mrs Geddes in 1889, it was subsequently occupied by the sculptor Hamo Thornycroft and by the engineer Owen Williams. [1] A wing and separate studio were added to the house by Maxwell Ayrton in 1927 for Williams. [2] The interior of the house contains many decorative features designed by Mackmurdo including decorated skirting boards, doorways, cornices and fireplaces. [1] The house is ordered into six bays with tall sash windows, surmounted by a mansard roof. [2]

Bridget Cherry, writing in the 1998 London: North edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, described the 'simplicity' of One Oak as 'forward looking for its date'. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Historic England, "One Oak (1130370)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 3 December 2018
  2. 1 2 3 Bridget Cherry; Nikolaus Pevsner (March 1998). London: North. Yale University Press. p. 213. ISBN   978-0-300-09653-8.

Coordinates: 51°33′24″N0°11′08″W / 51.5568°N 0.1856°W / 51.5568; -0.1856