One Oak, Frognal

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.

[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.

[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'.