North Lodge, Ashfold

North Lodge is a lodge designed around 1875 by George Devey for Eric Carrington Smith, owner of the Ashfold estate, and built by John Adcock of Dover and Wheatland. The building was extended and refurbished between 1991 and the early 21st century, with these later additions not considered to be of special interest.

The lodge is built of sandstone ashlar for the base and plinth, with the upper part in red brick in English bond, featuring a diaper pattern of grey headers. Roughcast finish is present on the north-east and south-west gables. The roof is tiled, with a multi-flue brick chimney. Later extensions are brick faced with tiled roofs.

The original plan was roughly T-shaped, with a projection to the south-east. This was later altered around 1991 with the addition of a link block and a large extension to the south-east.

The north-east front, or entrance front, features a projecting gable, roughcast with wooden barge boards and a dentilled band. It has a casement window to the first floor and a four-light canted bay with a tiled roof to the ground floor, both with sandstone surrounds but featuring replaced windows. A recessed entrance is set back within a porch with an elliptical arch and a triangular buttress to the corner, with a two-panelled door fitted in the late 20th century. The north-west front is dominated by a massive end chimneystack with four diagonally set flues. It has one casement window on the first floor and two narrow casement windows on the ground floor. The south-east elevation has a gable with a central first floor window and a right-hand ground floor window, alongside an elliptical-headed opening into the porch. The south-west elevation is largely obscured by later extensions, but retains a gable identical to the north-eastern one, with a two-light casement to the first floor and a three-light casement to the ground floor; these have original sandstone surrounds but now hold later 20th-century windows, the ground floor one being stained glass with leaded lights. Additional extensions include a single-storey early 21st-century brick extension with a raised roof-light and a one-and-a-half-storey brick-faced range with a tiled roof, brick chimneystack and end gables mirroring the original pattern. The south-east front of these extensions features a gabled dormer, a gabled projection, and a canted bay to the ground floor.

The cornices, ceiling roses, and the pine staircase within the original part of the building all date from the 1990s.