Bagshot Park Mansion

SU 96SW WINDLESHAM C.P. LONDON ROAD

4/160 Bagshot Park Mansion (Formerly listed as The Mansion 4/8/76 (Central Block Only))

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Country house, now Army Chaplains training centre. 1877 by Benjamin Ferrey for the Duke of Connaught in Tudor Gothic style. Extended to sides and rear in later C19 and C20. Bright red brick with stone dressings, slate roofs with tiled ridges, stone coped kneelers and gable ends. Irregular plan with rectangular central block flanked by projecting wings connected to main house by corridor on right. Central block two storeys with attics and central three stage tower under pyramidal roof; diagonal stacks on stone plinths to ridges. Tower buttressed to lower stage with battlemented parapet to top and angle gargoyles. Stone angle bay window rising through two lower stages with stone mullion and transome leaded window, those in upper half with arched lights. Coat of Arms, crown and two quatrefoil panel decorations above. Large gabled bay to right end of centre block with chimney rising through apex of gable Stone dressed attic window with mullioned and transomed windows below. Four windows across first floor of house, one to left end 3-light under gabled eaves dormer above. 3 windows to ground floor behind arcaded screen with two centred arches and pierced balustrade above. Central projecting porte-cochere with octagonal angle turrets, pierced balustrade and stone dressed arches. Glazed doors to centre. Bell tower to left at junction with extensions in similar style. Quadrant corridor to right linking to extensions. Rear elevation: Main features include polygonal bay to left on angle, square bay to right with round oriel window on first floor. Conservatory to right end.

This is Ferrey's last building and how much of the design was his son's work is uncertain.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p.101-2.

Listing NGR: SU9086764318