Willmer House

Willmer House is Baroque in style and features an elaborate red-brick façade, described by the Pevsner Architectural Guide as one of the finest in the country.

Architectural historian Nathaniel Lloyd, in 1929, described the pilasters at either end of the façade as "perhaps the most beautiful example extant of the Doric order interpreted in brick".

Willmer House is a Baroque-style three-storey building with a facade of five bays facing West Street in Farnham, Surrey.

[1] Architectural historian Nathaniel Lloyd described them in 1929 as "perhaps the most beautiful example extant of the Doric Order interpreted in brick".

[1] Ian Nairn, Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry in the Pevsner Architectural Guide for Surrey describe Willmer House as having "one of the finest cut brick façades in the country", though note that while the individual features are impressive when combined together they are somewhat lost in "a bewildering and rather forbidding tour de force".

[7][8] 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.

[1] The eastern garden wall, of red brick, was separately listed, in grade II, on 29 December 1972.

[7] The council was notified that significant repair work was required in 2018 and since then scaffolding has been erected to protect the public from any falling masonry, this has partially obscured the façade.

[7] In October 2021 Waverley Borough Council indicated that it intended to relinquish ownership of the museum to an independent trust, as it was judged to make applying for grants easier.