Langton House

Details

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (west side), LANGTON GREEN 7/497 Langton House

20.10.54 GV II

Large house. Early C19 in more than one phase (almost certainly earlier origins). Main block is painted brick, garden front is weatherboarded timber- framing at first floor level; painted brick stacks and chimneyshafts with dentil cornices; slate roof.

Plan: Large house with an irregular double-depth plan facing onto The Green to the east south east, say east. Entrance front to south and garden front to west. 2 rooms wide. The front rooms heated by projecting end stacks. Main doorway in left (south) end to rear of front room into large entrance hall with staircase off to rear between rear rooms. Rear right room has projecting end stack. An axial stack rear left heats 2 rear rooms there and probably part of the service wing which projects for rear of left (south) side. It is probably secondary. The layout suggests that originally there was a central front doorway.

Main block is 2 storeys with attics in the front section, service wing is 2 storeys and single-storey billiard room extension off right (north) side at the front.

Exterior: Symmetrical 3-window front. Central ground floor window, a C19 12- pane sash, probably blocking earlier doorway, but it has a moulded stucco architrave and a floating cornice on acanthus consoles. Flanking canted bays containing replacement horned sashes without glazing bars, although a couple of the side lights are original 8-pane sashes. Windows have moulded stucco architraves and parapets with balustrade sections. Flat band at first floor level. First floor windows; a central round-headed sash with radial glazing bars and moulded stucco architrave and flanking tripartite sashes containing central 12-pane sashes. Moulded band above and deep eaves on pairs of shaped brackets. Roof hipped both ends and contains 3 flat roofed dormers with horned 4-pane sashes. A weatherboarded clock tower rises from the centre of the ridge. Clock face front has fielded panel surround. Pyramid roof surmounted by a weathervane.

Entrance front (south) has less regular 2-window front, mostly 16-pane sashes under low segmental brick arches (upper ones with shutters). Doorway to rear of front stack. Glazed door with glazing bars and side lights and overlight. Unusual flat roofed porch; moulded entablature on pairs of diagonally set posts and segmental outer arch scrolling down at its apex. The north side has irregular 5-window front. Most are 12-pane sashes but only those towards the front have moulded stucco architraves. The western (garden) front is most attractive. The weatherboarding here giving it a colonial appearance. It has a 3-bay front. Outer bays have ground floor canted bay windows supporting jettied first floor bays, each containing 2 windows, all 12-pane sashes. Those in the bays have curious sills diminishing to pendants. Central doorway under a broad segmental arch containing a glazed door with side lights and overlight similar to the main entrance. Centre bay recessed at first floor level to create a balcony fenced with an ornate cast iron balustrade. French window onto the balcony. Deep eaves on pairs of shaped brackets and flanking bays are gabled with plain bargeboards with apex pendants. Tented verandah across this front in same style as main porch. Bellcote on ridge of roof. Service block has late C19 windows, mostly horned 2- and 4-pane sashes.

Interior: Includes a great deal of C19 joinery and other detail including a geometric stick baluster stair.

Langton House is the largest of a good group of varied listed buildings fronting onto The Green.

Listing NGR: TQ5435539273

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