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LANG HOUSE (NO.27)

Lang House

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

Ernest Athole Ross (1920)

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

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