Coombe Lodge

Coombe Lodge is a former country house, now serving as a further education staff college, built between 1930 and 1932 by Sir George Oatley. It is constructed of ashlar stone with stone tile roofs and is designed in the Cotswold Vernacular style. The building has a U-shaped main block with a left-hand service range, featuring two storeys and attics. The main block consists of five bays, while the service wing has six bays.

The windows are cross-mullioned, with configurations of two and four lights, and small leaded pane casements set in chamfered surrounds. The south front of the main block features three canted bays across two floors, with gables in the attic and oculi above the attic windows. There is a porch at an angle to the service range, along with a further one-storey range projecting at right angles. The porch is adorned with Ionic pilasters and a family crest above a keyed segmental arch, topped by a canted staircase window.

The north front has two projecting two-bay wings and a recessed central section, displaying similar details to the south front, but includes a central loggia and porte cochere with a balustraded balcony above. Moulded string courses and tall square ashlar stacks are arranged in lines of two and four, as well as clustered on the central ridge.

Inside, the layout is described as idiosyncratic and impracticable, but it features fine quality Tudor-style woodwork panelling in the ground floor rooms, corridors, and staircase.