Willmer House

Willmer House was built in 1718 as a house for the local hop merchant John Thorne, on land parcelled off in 1710. The site has earlier occupation as building work in 1992–93 revealed a late mediaeval chalk wall, probably used to retain a garden terrace, a brick-lined Tudor period well, a rubbish pit and a 17th-century cobbled surface and associated Purbeck Marble flagstone path. Pottery from the 13th and 14th centuries was also found. By the early Victorian period the house had become a private boarding school for boys. It later housed a girls school and a dental surgery. The eastern garden wall, of red brick, was separately listed, in grade II, on 29 December 1972. Since 1961 the structure…

Willmer House is a Baroque-style three-storey building with a facade of five bays facing West Street in Farnham, Surrey. It is constructed of red brick with detailing in moulded bricks. At either end of the façade are Doric-style brick pilasters. At the top of the first-floor level a string course is formed in moulded brick while a brick cornice runs along the top of the second floor. At the edge of the roof is a brick parapet, with piers between the bays. The windows are of the sash type. The windows on the upper two storeys have bolection moulded brick surrounds; those on the first floor are capped with segment-shaped moulding and those on the second storey with straight moulding. The…