Ashour Farm Cottage Including Garden Wall To South

Ashour Farm Cottage, originally a lodge for the Penshurst Estate, was built in 1861 and designed by George Devey. It includes a garden wall to the south. The lodge sits facing west and overlooks a lane leading to Ashour Farm, with its best view to the south, towards Penshurst Road. It was built using local sandstone rubble for the ground floor, with a timber-framed first floor and plastered infill, topped by a peg-tile roof. Brick and stone stacks are present. The design is in a Vernacular Revival style.

The building has an asymmetrical plan, with the main room featuring a bay window and a prominent stone stack on its south side. A single-storey service wing extends to the rear (north), with a stack in the northwest corner. The entrance is on the west side.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with a two-storey canted bay to the left of centre. This bay has chamfered stone mullioned windows with two lights on the ground floor and two-light casements above. The date "1861" is painted below the sill of the centre first-floor window. Originally, the first-floor casements had timber fleur de lis below the sills, one of which is now missing. To the right of the bay, the tall stone stack has a moulded cap and a carved panel displaying armorial bearings with the initials "PS". A single ground-floor one-light window with twentieth-century glazing is located to the far right. Jettied first-floor gables are supported on timber brackets on the west and east sides. The west elevation features a tile-hung gable above incised plasterwork. Below, an open timber porch shelters a nineteenth-century front door with a chamfered, rounded doorframe. The rear service block has a three-light and a one-light casement window, alongside a twentieth-century porch at the northern end. The garden wall, which curves and is constructed of dressed stone with stone coping, is included in the listing.

The interior was not inspected. George Devey undertook significant work for the Penshurst estate in the 1850s, and his drawings for Ashour Lodge are held in the RIBA drawings collection.