Ashtead Lodge With Attached Screen Walls And Garden Wall

Ashtead Lodge is a house, dating probably to 1765, which has been enlarged in the early 19th century and subsequently altered. It is now divided into five flats. The building is constructed of colour-washed red brick in a Flemish bond, with a red tiled roof. It has a rectangular, double-depth plan with additions at both ends.

The symmetrical front facade has two storeys and seven bays, with a service basement below, and a three-course band. A three-bay, pedimented centre section projects slightly forward. A central doorway, approached by three steps, is sheltered by a glazed wooden porch with fielded panels and a low pediment. The windows are horned sash windows without glazing bars, each with a gauged brick head and decorated wooden blind-hoods. A bracketed cornice runs along the top of the facade and the roof is hipped, with two dormers above the pediment. There is a large chimney stack on the front slope to the right of the centre, and side-wall chimneys at the left end. The pediment features unusual rusticated masonry.

Attached to the front corner of each end are quadrantal screen walls; the wall to the left connects to a garden wall that returns along the north side of the garden, while the wall to the right has been partly demolished to create a gateway. Additions to the left and right ends are not of particular interest.

The rear elevation has two storeys and seven bays over a high basement, with a central porch, accessed by nine steps, protected by curved wrought-iron railings. The windows are sashed without glazing bars, with three dormers in the roof.

Inside, a fine 18th-century open-well staircase has carved foliated brackets, three fluted balusters per tread, a fielded panel dado and triglyph and wreath decoration on the landing, although this is now partitioned from the front entrance hall. A ground-floor front room has full fielded panelling, which has been altered and sub-partitioned, with some panelling relocated. At first floor, there is some surviving 18th-century panelling including built-in cupboards, two 18th-century fireplaces with keystones (one fluted), and one Adam-style fireplace. A full service cellar contains the remains of an oven, a wash boiler, and a cast-iron pump with raised lettering on the head reading "F B 1765", flanked by human figures (“FB” denoting Francis Beckford).