Langton Lodge
LANGTON LODGE, FORDCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240367
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Langton Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- LANGTON LODGE, FORDCOMBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240367
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Langton Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANGTON LODGE, FORDCOMBE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LANGTON LODGE, FORDCOMBE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Speldhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 53548 39001
Details
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST FORDCOMBE ROAD, ASHURST PARK
7/477 Langton Lodge
II
Former lodge to Ashurst Park. Circa 1864 by G. Devey with early C20 and circa 1988 extensions. Front of the old lodge is coursed sandstone ashlar, the rear (onto the main road) is random rubble. Gables are timber-framed. Brick stack with panelled brick chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof. Additions in stone, brick and timber-framing.
Plan: Lodge faces north east onto the drive to Ashurst Park, lately renamed Fernchase Manor (q.v.). Small 3-room plan house with an axial stack between the centre and right rooms. Left end room is smaller and set back a little from the main front. Originally front door was in the angle of the recess but that doorway now blocked and entrance into C20 extension on right end.
Original lodge is single storey. Extensions on the right end are 2 storeys.
Exterior: Irregular 2-window front of timber-framed windows with chamfered mouldings and containing diamond panes of leaded glass. Left window (centre bay) is transomed and an oriel under a small gable which is hung with peg tile. Smaller right window under gable of a crossroof which is filled with ornamental timber-framing. Recessed left bay is blind on the front. Eaves carried down in the corner over a porch supported on rustic posts with very irregular rustic branch brackets. Former doorway in the angle blocked by an arch-headed window. The left (south eastern) gable end contains another oriel, this one on a row of shaped timber brackets. Jettied gable above filled with ornamental timber-framing which includes the monogram GF. The rear wall has a projecting semi-circular stair turret. Roof is gable-ended, stepping down to the narrower south eastern bay and with a gabled crossroof the other end. According to local reports some of the lodges to Ashurst Park were originally thatch-roofed.
Sources J. Newman. West Kent and the Weald. Penguin Buildings of England series (1969), p.138. This is the lodge mentioned at Crockers Hatch Corner.
Listing NGR: TQ5354839001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438775
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1969), 138
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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