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Longbourn, WINDSOR, SL4 3TR

Described in the English Heritage Listed Buildings website as a good early Victorian Jacobean-style house which retains much of its original character, it was built for Edmund Foster and completed around 1841. It was later used by the Imperial Service College. As originally built the access to it was via a carriage drive from Hatch Lane to the west rather than the modern day route from Imperial Road via Longbourn. The wall in front is a separate Listed Structure Image

The wall is a Grade II Listed Structure and dates from when the house was built around 1841.

The building in the centre of this image was built as Clewer Manor. It has now been converted into apartments and is named Meryton House. It is Grade II listed. This image was taken in the late afternoon on a bright and sunny February day. The sun was low in the sky, casting long shadows.

Hatch Lane is a residential road in Windsor. This image was taken in the late afternoon on a bright and sunny February day. The sun was low in the sky, casting long shadows.

St. John's Drive is a residential cul-de-sac in Windsor. This image was taken in the late afternoon on a bright and sunny February day. The sun was low in the sky, casting long shadows.

Looking towards St Leonard's Road

The photographer has to confess to being somewhat mystified by this Gothic extravaganza. It is obviously of some architectural interest and a search of the English Heritage Listed Buildings website gives the following description: St Annes House Convent of St John The Baptist 1853, architect Henry Woodyer. Gothic. H plan. 2 storeys and attic, red brick. Steep pitch tiled roof. South front has casement windows. One bay window of 5 pointed lights ground floor. 3 narrow gablets above as dormers. 4 circular chimneys rising from 1st floor and made to look like medieval bartisans with circular shafts. 3 wider dormers between these." In this a gablet is a small gable while a bartisan or bartizan is a small turret projecting from a wall, and we are looking at the south front. Yet looking at old large scale Victorian Ordnance Survey maps the building is consistently described in each succeeding edition as St John's Orphanage. But would an architect be employed to build such a quirky structure for an orphanage? It now appears to be called "Recognition House".

Only noticed because of the old pub sign post, spared so far. The pub was the Bricklayers Arms.