#long room

First Long Room at the New Lord's — Pavilion Opens, May 1816

In May 1816 the MCC completed the first pavilion at the new Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood — a small two-storey wooden building containing dressing rooms and, on the ground floor, a panelled members' room that became known as the Long Room. The 1816 Long Room was the direct ancestor of the present pavilion's most famous space and the first dedicated indoor cricket room at Lord's.