North Lodge, Including Attached Wall, Farnborough Hill School

991/0/10034 FARNBOROUGH ROAD 26-SEP-03 North Lodge, including attached wall, Farnborough Hill School

GV II Lodge. 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 timberframed with close-studding, decorative bracing to the south and with plastered infill. The gable ends and central dormer to west have carved bargeboards 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 diaperwork 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 Allibone "George Devey" Lutterworth Press 1991 Ps 158-9.]