Shepherd's Well at 5 Frognal Way in

Frognal Frognal is a small area of Hampstead, North West London in the London Borough of Camden. 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. History ...

, London is a detached house that was designed by the architect

Adrian Gilbert Scott Adrian Gilbert Scott (6 August 1882 – 23 April 1963) was an English ecclesiastical architect. Early life Scott was the grandson of Sir Gilbert Scott (George Gilbert Scott), son of George Gilbert Scott, Jr. (founder of Watts & Company in 1 ...

as his personal residence. It was built between 1929 and 1930 and has been Grade II listed on the

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since January 1999. The

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heritage listing for Shepherd's Well highlights its "grey-brown handmade bricks, red pantiled roof" and "white-painted wooden sash windows" and detects influence of Edwin Lutyens in its design.

Bridget Cherry Bridget Cherry OBE, FSA, Hon. FRIBA (born 17 May 1941) is a British architectural historian who was series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides from 1971 until 2002, and is the author or co-author of several volumes in the series.

, writing in the 1998 ''London: North'' edition of the

Pevsner Architectural Guides The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of Great Britain and Ireland. Begun in the 1940s by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the 46 volumes of the original Buildings of England series were published b ...

described Shepherd's Well as "mannered Neo-Georgian" and noted that the "front door case has been removed".

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An image of Shepherd's Well at the RIBA Photographic Library
{{coord, 51.55473, -0.18200, format=dms, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Adrian Gilbert Scott buildings Frognal Houses in Hampstead Grade II listed houses in the London Borough of Camden Houses completed in 1930 Modernist architecture in London