Lake Cottage
LAKE COTTAGE, FORDCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261072
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Lake Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LAKE COTTAGE, FORDCOMBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261072
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Lake Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAKE COTTAGE, 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:
- LAKE COTTAGE, 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 53191 39525
Details
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST FORDCOMBE ROAD (off), ASHURST PARK 7/479 Lake Cottage
GV II
Stable block to Fernchase Manor (q.v.) formerly known as Ashurst Park. The stables have been partly converted to housing. 1867 (dated on bell); modest C20 conversion. Flemish bond brick with a chamfered stone plinth and sandstone ashlar dressings; red tile roofs; brick stacks.
Plan: South west facing. Symmetrically-arranged with a coach house in the centre and front left and right projecting stable wings forming a courtyard completed by a brick wall. The coach house has a rear centre wing.
Exterior: Single-storey stable blocks, coach house with an attic, surmounted by clock tower and cupola. Gabled roofs with coped gables with kneeler. 5- bay front elevation to the coach house which has a stone parapet and, in the centre, a gable containing a round-headed loft loading door, partly panelled and partly glazed, with a keyblock. A stone band across the front rises as a hoodmould over the doorways and windows. 3 segmental-headed coach house doors with keyblocks and original paired plank doors. The outer bays each have a pair of 2-light casement windows. Behind the coach house the clock tower has a clock face in a decorated frame, the cupola above with a lead roof and a wrought iron weathervane. The stable blocks have apex finials and shaped bargeboards to the gable ends which have stone quoins and round-headed windows. Stone bands rise as the hoodmoulds to the windows which have keyblocks and have been divided by brick lintels to the C20 casements with glazing bars below. The inner returns of the stable blocks have hollow- chamfered stone cornices over a ;brick dentil frieze. Stone bands rise to form the hoodmoulds of 2 doors (one on each side converted to a window), one flanked by 2-light casement windows. The stable blocks have C20 axial chimney stacks. The stable courtyard is completed by a quadrant brick wall with stone plinth and coping, the gate piers with low pyramidal caps above a brick dentil cornice. The rear elevation of the coach house block is in the same style as the front and includes some original round-headed horned 4-pane sashes. The coach house block includes original groom's accommodation with an original stack with a corbelled brick cornice to the shaft.
Interior: not inspected.
A handsome C19 stable block.
Listing NGR: TQ5319139525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438777
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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