Ludshott Manor

Ludshott Manor is a country house, now used as a home for the elderly, dating from 1827-8 when it was remodelled and enlarged by P. F. Robinson for Sir James Macdonald, incorporating an earlier house. A chapel was added in 1870, with 20th-century alterations later made. The house is constructed of dressed stone with a Welsh slate roof featuring coped gables. Axial stacks have polygonal shafts.

The original house is contained within the north-west wing. In 1827-8, the south-west garden front was rebuilt in a Tudor style, and a large wing was added on the south-east side. The south-east front incorporates a tower in the north-east corner. In 1870, a chapel was built on the north-west side and, in 1928, the main entrance was altered by Kitchen.

The south-east front is asymmetrical, with four bays. A squat, three-storey tower is to the right, and a projecting gabled bay is to the left of centre, featuring a canted stone bay window on the ground floor, and an armorial panel in the gable. Stone mullion-transom windows with hoodmoulds and casements are present. A chamfered four-centred arch doorway, inserted by Kitchen in 1928, is to the right of centre; the original doorway was located at the base of the tower. A single-storey wing was added later in the 20th century to the front of the left bay.

The south-west garden front has six gabled bays and the 1870 chapel on the left. The central gable is advanced and features a 1:3:1 four-centred arch window arrangement on the ground floor, an oriel window on the first floor, and a blind loop above in the gable. The flanking gabled bays have large canted bay windows on the ground floor. To the right is a cross-wing with a large central gable flanked by smaller set-back gables, with a 20th-century single-storey extension obscuring the ground floor. To the left is the chapel, which has a polygonal apse at its north-west end.

The interior retains much of the 1827-8 design, including Gothick joinery, panelled ceilings with bosses at the intersections of the ribs, moulded arches, and a Gothick screen in the hall. The staircase behind the screen has an 18th-century panelled dado, though the balustrade is 19th century. In 1928, Kitchen blocked the original entrance into the hall at the base of the tower and created an entrance vestibule in the adjacent room by inserting an Arts and Crafts glazed timber screen. The Victorian chapel has been subdivided.