The house on Murray Mews was built by John French, a structural engineer. He purchased the plot in January 1988, and authorised Madigan and Donald to prepare the working drawings. Construction work started in February 1988 and was completed in October.

In a feature about the house in the RIBA Journal, Richard Wilcock wrote, “[Donald] decided to bring the ground floor forward, right up to the building line, in front of the houses on either side. The façade is symmetrical with a central entrance door flanked by the garage and kitchen. Projecting these forward allowed Donald to insert an area of glazed pitched roof behind the tall brick parapet. This supplements the light from the four-square windows…

“Rising above the ground floor are the two first-floor bedrooms and above these is a bedroom with a large roof terrace. Second-hand London stock brick [was] used – a requirement of the planners – and their expressive texture, emphasised by a series of angled-brick courses, lends an almost primeval air to this elevation.