Frognal is reinforced as the name of a minor road, which goes uphill from Finchley Road and at its upper end is in the west of Hampstead village.

By the mid-eighteenth century it was a significant settlement, sought after by eminent lawyers, and infill development continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

[1] The organist at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church was the father of composer John Tavener.

The central area, lacking large council estates, has undergone less change than some other parts of Hampstead.

[citation needed] Frognal Grove, Grade II listed, (1871–72) was a large house inherited by the architect George Edmund Street, who made additions to it.