Cobham Heritage Blue Plaques
Cobham Heritage has an ongoing project to erect blue plaques to identify buildings or sites which have an important historical significance. Please see the list and map below which shows the location of the Blue Plaques erected to date.
If you would like to suggest a building or site in the Cobham area which you think has an important historical significance, please contact us with your nomination and details of why it deserves a blue plaque by emailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
| Name | Address | Inscription | |
| 1 | Crown Inn | High Street, Cobham |
Here stood the Crown Inn, demolished c.1913. The adjoining footpath, which was called Crown Alley, was originally a track leading into Church Field, one of Cobham's open fields in medieval times. |
| 2 | Overbye | Church Street, Cobham |
Here lived the Arts and Crafts architect Leonard Martin, F.R.I.B.A (1869-1936). He enlarged this house and restored and enlarged several properties in Church Street including Pyports, Church Stile House and St Bridget's. He also designed Homestead and Beech House. |
| 3 | Pyports | Downside Bridge Road, Cobham |
Captain Sir William Hoste (1780-1828) known as "the young Nelson". Mark Currie (1759-1835) Banker and Distiller. Samuel Wesley Bradnack (1818-1895) Methodist School Master and Revivalist. Vernon Lushington (1832-1912) Lawyer, Positivist and friend of the Pre-Raphaelites. His Daughter Kitty was Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway". |
| 4 | Fox and Hounds | High Street, Cobham |
The Fox and Hounds public house, a well know cobham landmark, stood adjacent to this spot for over a hundred years until it was demolished circa 1960. |
| 5 | William Watts | Church Cottage, Downside Bridge Road, Cobham |
William Watts. renowned artist and engraver lived here. 1814 - 1851 |
| 6 | Matthew Arnold | Matthew Arnold Close, Cobham | Matthew Arnold - Here stood Painshill Cottage home from 1873 to 1888 of Matthew Arnold, distinguished poet, educationalist and literary, social and religious critic. |
| 7 | Sir Thomas Sopwith | Compton House, Fairmile Park Road. Cobham | Sir Thomas Sopwith - From 1914 to 1920, Sir Thomas Sopwith (1888 to 1989) lived here. Pioneer aviator & yachtsman and founder of the Sopwith School of Flying and Sopwith Aviation at Brooklands. |
| 8 | The White Lion | White Lion, Portsmouth Road, Cobham | The White Lion dates from the 16th century. In the 1820s, it was one of the best coaching inns in the country. Post chaises and horses were hired out and their return was made by those living in nearby Post Boys Row. |
If you would like to suggest a building or site in the Cobham area which you think has an important historical significance, please contact us with your nomination and details of why it deserves a blue plaque by emailing us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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