Court Lodge Farmhouse

TQ 61 NE ASHBURNHAM FORGE LANE

20/35 Court Lodge Farmhouse (formerly listed as Court 3.8.61 Lodge)

II*

This house resembles Deer Park Cottage, Ashburnham Place, in the Parish of Catsfield, and Church Farm in the Parish of Penhurst and is clearly by the same architect or builder. L-shaped early C17 house. The main front faces East and is of red brick on an ashlar base with long and short stone quoins and stringcourse. Tiled roof. Gabled brick porch with a round-headed stone archway. Gable to east wing. Casement windows with diamond-shaped leaded panes, the 2 windows on ground floor having 2 tiers of 5-lights with stone mullions. 2 storeys and attic in gable. 4 windows. The West front is of ashlar. It has a gable at its South end with below it, 2 windows of 2 tiers of 5-lights, some blocked. Two ashlar chimney breasts each with 2 diagonally-set brick stacks. Blocked 4-centred stone doorway. The South front has a brick chimney breast with 3 diagonally-set brick stacks. There are a number of blocked windows at various points round the house. The interior, which was a good one, was mostly gutted by fire in 1948.

Listing NGR: TQ6822016383