Langton Park Lodge
LANGTON PARK LODGE, FORDCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240480
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Langton Park Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- LANGTON PARK LODGE, FORDCOMBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240480
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Langton Park Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANGTON PARK 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 PARK 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 53501 39472
Details
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST FORDCOMBE ROAD, ASHURST PARK
7/478 Langton Park Lodge
II
Estate cottage to Fernchase Manor (q.v.), previously known as Ashurst Park. Possibley 1864 to the designs of George Devey. Newman refers to 2 Devey lodges of this date and this is probably one of them. Local sandstone and timber-framing with some tile-hanging and some weatherboarding; peg-tile roof; stack with brick shaft. Vernacular Revival style with some picturesque rustic detail.
Plan: Overall cruciform plan the main block roofed on a north south axis, the south elevation overlooking Fordcombe Road with an entrance on the south.
Exterior: Well-preserved cottage ornee with elaborate detail. Single storey and attic with a very deep gabled roof with crested ridge tiles the gables with pierced, cusped bargeboards. The attic storey framing is partly close- studded with some curved braces. The ground floor is treated with a mixture of materials; some weatherboarding, some tile-hanging, some stone; some split logs. The south elevation to the front at the right, the gable with a terracotta apex finial and a first floor oriel window. The base of the gable has a zig-zag frieze and, below it, the front wall is made up of vertical split logs with horizontal logs above providing ventilation for the storeroom behind. The split log arrangement continues on the right (east) return wall, inside the porch. To the right a recessed porch on undressed tree trunk posts, very twistedrustic branches forming the outer doorway on the south side, the porch also open on the west side. Plank and cover strip front door. To the left of the gable the south elevation is tile-hung. The east elevation has a shallow gabled projection in the centre, local sandstone below timber- framing in the gable. One ground and one first floor small-pane 2-light casement window. The east elevation is weatherboarded to the right. Diagonally-set chimney shaft projects through the roof in front fo the ridge on the south side. Interior: Not inspected.
A well-preserved building externally with some extremely attractive detail. 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.
Listing NGR: TQ5350139472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438776
- 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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