Bagshot Park Mansion

Bagshot Park Mansion is a country house that now serves as an Army Chaplains training centre. It was built in 1877 by Benjamin Ferrey for the Duke of Connaught in the Tudor Gothic style. The mansion was later extended to the sides and rear in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The building features bright red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs that have tiled ridges, stone coped kneelers, and gable ends.

The plan is irregular, with a rectangular central block flanked by projecting wings that are connected to the main house by a corridor on the right. The central block has two storeys with attics and a central three-stage tower topped with a pyramidal roof. Diagonal stacks sit on stone plinths that rise to the ridges. The tower is buttressed at the lower stage and has a battlemented parapet at the top, along with angle gargoyles.

There is a stone angle bay window that rises through the two lower stages, featuring a stone mullion and transomed leaded window, with arched lights in the upper half. Above this, there are decorations including a coat of arms, a crown, and two quatrefoil panels. The right end of the central block has a large gabled bay with a chimney that rises through the apex of the gable. Below, there are stone-dressed attic windows with mullioned and transomed windows beneath.

The first floor has four windows across the front, with one at the left end being a three-light window under a gabled eaves dormer. The ground floor features three windows behind an arcaded screen with two-centred arches and a pierced balustrade above. A central projecting porte-cochere has octagonal angle turrets, a pierced balustrade, and stone-dressed arches, with glazed doors at the centre.

To the left at the junction with the extensions is a bell tower designed in a similar style. A quadrant corridor on the right links to the extensions. The rear elevation includes a polygonal bay on the left at an angle and a square bay on the right with a round oriel window on the first floor. There is also a conservatory at the right end.

This building is noted as Ferrey's last work, though it is uncertain how much of the design was contributed by his son.