LANG HOUSE (NO. 27)
Approved 1910 – Architect - Henry L G Hill (Winchester).
Plans include dining room, drawing room, study, servant's hall, kitchen, scullery/pantry, hall, workshop, dark room, lavatory, main bedroom and dressing room, four further bedrooms and two servants bedrooms. (Building control plan HRO reference W/C11/2/1390).
The first owner, A F Macfie, had a Scottish family estate called Langhouse, Inverkip, Renfrewshire, Scotland, undoubtedly the source of the name of this new house.
Residents:
Allan Fullarton Macfie (1910-1912; owned until 1922
Golfer and sugar refinery business
Lieutenant-Colonel T H P Morris (1913-1914)
Rifle Brigade
Brigadier-General R C Maclachlan (1915-1919)
Rifle Brigade
Major Sir Guy Colin Campbell (1920)
Kings Royal Rifle Corp, Golf course architect
Pathologist
Katherine Frances Tindall (1921-1946)
Widow of Robert Tindall, J.P. in Bedfordshire.
Dr. William John Elliott Phillips (1946-1948)
Physician
Sir Mark Aitchison Young (1948-1975)
Colonial Service; Governor of Hong Kong
Auction brochure from 1948
Lang House was run as a Bed & Breakfast in the 2000's.
Lang House was demolished and replaced by the Connaught Square development of 14 apartments in 2015.
Thanks to Tim Young for images
From Bed & Breakfast Stops published 2005 by FHG.
