Ashour Farm Cottage Including Garden Wall to South
ASHOUR FARM COTTAGE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH, PENSHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277667
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ashour Farm Cottage Including Garden Wall to South
- Statutory Address:
- ASHOUR FARM COTTAGE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH, PENSHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277667
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ashour Farm Cottage Including Garden Wall to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHOUR FARM COTTAGE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH, PENSHURST 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:
- ASHOUR FARM COTTAGE INCLUDING GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH, PENSHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bidborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54757 43485
Details
TQ 54 SW BIDBOROUGH PENSHURST ROAD (north side)
3/27 Ashour Farm Cottage including garden wall to the south
II
Lodge to the Penshurst Estate, including garden wall to the west and south. 1861 (date on front), designed by George Devey. Local sandstone rubble to the ground floor, first floor timber-framed with plastered infill; peg-tile roof; stone and brick stacks. Vernacular Revival style.
Plan: The lodge faces west, overlooking the farm lane to Ashour Farm (in Penshurst parish), with a show elevation on the south side, facing the Penshurst Road. Asymmetrical plan, the principal room to the south with a bay window and stone stack on the south side, single-storey rear (north) service wing with a north west stack, entrance on the west side.
Exterior: 2 storeys to the front (south), single-storey to the rear. Asymmetrical south elevation with a 2-storey canted bay to left of centre with a pyramidal roof. The bay has 2-light chamfered stone mullioned windows to the ground floor and 2-light first floor casements. Date of 1861 painted below the sill of the centre first floor window, the outer casements originally with timber fleur de lis below the sills, one of which is missing. To the right of the bay the lateral stone stack has a tall shaft with a moulded cap and a panel with armorial bearings carved in relief with the initials PS. To the right of the stack one ground floor one-light window with C20 glazing. On the west and east sides jettied first floor gables are supported on timber brackets. On the entrance (west) elevation, the first floor gable (to the right) is tile hung above framing with an incised pattern in the plasterwork. Below the gable an open timber porch has a gabled roof and C19 front door with a chamfered, rounded doorframe. To the left of the porch the rear service block has one 3-light and one one-light casement window and a C20 additional porch at the left (north) end. The curved, dressed stone garden wall with stone coping to the south of the lodge is included in the listing.
Interior: Not inspected.
George Devey carried out extensive work for the Penshurst estate in the 1850s. His drawings for Ashour Lodge survive in the RIBA drawings collection (information from Dr. Jill Allibone).
Listing NGR: TQ5615543382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430787
- 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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