Longhurst Lodge is a Grade II listed building in Cranleigh, Surrey, England. It is located on the former

Baynards Park Baynards Park is a estate and site of a demolished country house with extant outbuildings, privately owned, in the south of the parishes of Cranleigh and Ewhurst, Surrey. History In 1447 William Sydney the younger obtained a licence to impark ...

estate, about a quarter of a mile northwest of where the

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stood. It became a

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in 1987. The property, a

Victorian Victorian or Victorians may refer to: 19th century * Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign ** Victorian architecture ** Victorian house ** Victorian decorative arts ** Victorian fashion ** Victorian literature ...

gate lodge A gatekeeper's lodge or gate lodge is a small, often decorative building, situated at the entrance to the estate of a mansion or country house. Originally intended as the office and accommodation for a gatekeeper who was employed by the landown ...

, is located at one of the gated entrances to the estate. It is one of four such lodges on the estate, commissioned by the Reverend Thomas Thurlow around 1837, after he purchased the estate. After being left to dereliction for the 48 years since it was previously occupied — by Irene Gould, her husband and three sons, between 1955 and 1961 — two Cranleigh residents, Vanessa Ford-Robbins and Nik Huddy, purchased the property in 2009 for £250,000 with a view to making it their home."Cranleigh lodge given Restoration Man treatment"
- SurreyLive, 11 January 2013 The renovation was followed from April 2011 (about six months into the project) in the

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show '' The Restoration Man''. Upon completion, it was the first time the building had gas, hot water and electricity in it."Victorian Gate Lodge (Before and After) , Restoration Man , Full Documentary , Reel Truth History"
- Reel Truth History Documentaries, YouTube, 3 April 2020 The new owners won the Special Heritage Award at the 2013 Waverley Design Awards.

Structure and layout

Exterior

The building has a

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render with a steeply pitched plain tiled roof. It is a

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plan with triple diagonal stacks on a ridge plinth at the crossing of the two ranges. The upper storey and attic is under a gabled dormer. Friezes of grapes and foliage bands in cement are found around the eaves and across the ground floor. Animals, some heraldic, decorate the walls. Two square bay windows are on the left hand (eastern) return front. A gabled porch with

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surround and four-centred arch over the door in the gable end. A pentice extension is across the right hand (western) return front. The western side of the building backs onto a

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."The Lodge"
- Chris Thomas-Atkin, Geograph.co.uk

Interior

The building is two storeys. The post-restoration layout has a kitchen immediately inside the front door on the home's northern side. A utility room is on the western side of the house, off the kitchen. The aforementioned chimney services fireplaces in the kitchen, in the living/dining room at the southern end of the ground floor, and in one of the two bedrooms that make up the first floor. As of ''Restoration Man''s final visit of the original broadcast, there was no bathroom. It was due to be included in the building's extension.

Gallery

File:Longhurst_Lodge.png, Another shot of the gate lodge around 1900 File:Disused Gatehouse at Baynard's Park Estate - geograph.org.uk - 311289.jpg, In 2007, three years before work on its restoration began and 46 years since it was last occupied. View from just inside the estate gates

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External links

Photographs

The gate lodge in 1980
- Flickr.com
During the restoration, in 2011
- Geograph.co.uk
A view of the northern façade in 2016
-

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, 21 May 2016
The eastern side of the building in 2019, post-renovation
- Geograph.co.uk
The gates in 2019
- Geograph.co.uk {{Waverley Cranleigh Houses in Surrey Gatehouses (architecture) Grade II listed buildings in Surrey