Ashour Farm Cottage Including Garden Wall To South

TQ 54 SW BIDBOROUGH PENSHURST ROAD (north side)

3/27 Ashour Farm Cottage including garden wall to the south

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Lodge to the Penshurst Estate, including garden wall to the west and south. 1861 (date on front), designed by George Devey. Local sandstone rubble to the ground floor, first floor timber-framed with plastered infill; peg-tile roof; stone and brick stacks. Vernacular Revival style.

Plan: The lodge faces west, overlooking the farm lane to Ashour Farm (in Penshurst parish), with a show elevation on the south side, facing the Penshurst Road. Asymmetrical plan, the principal room to the south with a bay window and stone stack on the south side, single-storey rear (north) service wing with a north west stack, entrance on the west side.

Exterior: 2 storeys to the front (south), single-storey to the rear. Asymmetrical south elevation with a 2-storey canted bay to left of centre with a pyramidal roof. The bay has 2-light chamfered stone mullioned windows to the ground floor and 2-light first floor casements. Date of 1861 painted below the sill of the centre first floor window, the outer casements originally with timber fleur de lis below the sills, one of which is missing. To the right of the bay the lateral stone stack has a tall shaft with a moulded cap and a panel with armorial bearings carved in relief with the initials PS. To the right of the stack one ground floor one-light window with C20 glazing. On the west and east sides jettied first floor gables are supported on timber brackets. On the entrance (west) elevation, the first floor gable (to the right) is tile hung above framing with an incised pattern in the plasterwork. Below the gable an open timber porch has a gabled roof and C19 front door with a chamfered, rounded doorframe. To the left of the porch the rear service block has one 3-light and one one-light casement window and a C20 additional porch at the left (north) end. The curved, dressed stone garden wall with stone coping to the south of the lodge is included in the listing.

Interior: Not inspected.

George Devey carried out extensive work for the Penshurst estate in the 1850s. His drawings for Ashour Lodge survive in the RIBA drawings collection (information from Dr. Jill Allibone).

Listing NGR: TQ5615543382