Description

CAMDEN

TQ2685NW FROGNAL
798-1/26/528 (West side)
11/08/50 No.99
St Dorothy's Convent
(Formerly Listed as:
FROGNAL
No.99
Frognal House)

GV II

Detached house, now a convent finishing school. c1740, partly
refaced late C19; late C20 alterations. Brown brick with red
brick dressings, moulded brick plinth and pilasters supporting
a cornice at 2nd floor level.
3 storeys and basement. Single window entrance front and 3
window return to garden. C20 entrance with canopy. Gauged red
brick segmental arches to flush framed sashes with exposed
boxing. 1st floor sash above entrance, round-arched with a
cast-iron guard. Garden front with central full height canted
bay, ground and 1st floor windows altered to French windows,
1st floor with early C19 cast-iron balconies. Parapet with C20
plain cast-iron balustrade. INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: following the Crimean War the house became
the Sailors' Orphan Girls' Home and was the home of General de
Gaulle and family in 1940-2. Converted to a finishing school
1968.

Listing NGR: TQ2611585867

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26406982

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)