Farnborough Road, Farnborough - North Lodge

Grade II, Year Listed 2003

Designed by George Devey between 1868 and 1876 as a lodge at Farnborough Hill for T G Longman the publisher.  Historicist Gothic style.  The ground floor is of stone rubble and some brickwork.  The upper floor with gables facing north and south is mainly timber-framed with close-studding, decorative bracing to the south and with plastered infill.  The gable ends and central dormer to west have carved barge boards with pendants.  The dormer facing west also has ornamental tile-hanging.  Tiled roof with massive external chimneystack in the centre of the west front with some stonework and black brick diaper work with three tall brick stacks set diagonally and a section of ramped up brick and stone walling and a further single brick chimneystack set diagonally to the east.  L-shaped building of one storey or one storey and attics with three windows to south and one window to west and north.  Windows are three-light wooden framed casements with leaded lights.  The south gable projects on wooden piers and wooden trellis above a section of wall to form a porch.

HISTORY: Longman employed George Devey to design various buildings on the estate and he was paid £26 in 1868 and £86 in 1876 for the North Lodge. [Jill Alibone “George Devey” Lutterworth Press 1991 Ps 158-9.]