Willmer House

Dated 1718, as indicated by the rainwater head, Willmer House is a three-storey building on West Street. It is constructed of fine red brick with distinctive rubber brick dressings. The building features a projecting plinth and tall, angle rusticated Doric pilasters that run the full height of the facade, topped with moulded brick caps. Moulded brick strings are placed between the pilasters at the first-floor level, extending centrally. Architraves and friezes are positioned over the pilasters at the corners, topped by an elaborate carved and moulded bracketed brick cornice, which projects forward over both the central bay and the angle pilasters. A brick parapet with projecting panelled piers at the corners and above the windows completes the exterior. The parapet is finished with moulded brick coping.

The second floor has five windows with brick surrounds featuring a bolection mould that stops on small blocks above the cill, capped with a small moulding, and a narrow moulded cill with a narrow apron resting on a moulded string. The first floor also has five windows presented similarly, but with segmental heads and aprons incorporating corner blocks; the bolection mould here springs directly from the cill. The ground floor contains four windows in simpler brick openings. All the windows retain their architrave frames. The central doorway comprises eight panels within an architrave surround, and a painted wooden doorcase featuring panelled pilasters and an entablature that projects forward over the pilasters and above the architrave, with enriched bed moulding to the cornice. Two moulded stone steps, with a scroll-ended bottom step, lead to the entrance.

The interior showcases a fine contemporary staircase, fireplaces, and a panelled room with a Corinthian doorway. The building was illustrated in Country Life in July 1942. A two-storey extension is attached to the right, with a brick front. This extension has a brick band above the ground floor to the right, and features three-light sash windows with intact glazing bars, accentuated by rubbed brick voussoirs. A doorway incorporates plain pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice, leading to a four-panelled door with a plain rectangular fanlight above. Willmer House now serves as the Farnham Museum.

Willmer House forms a group of architectural importance with Nos. 18, 37, 43, 45, and the other listed buildings on the south-east side from Nos. 19 to 46 (consecutive), including a wrought-iron screen before Vernon House.