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Langton Park Lodge

A Grade II Listed Building in Speldhurst, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.134 / 51°8'2"N

Longitude: 0.1926 / 0°11'33"E

OS Eastings: 553501

OS Northings: 139472

OS Grid: TQ535394

Mapcode National: GBR MPP.TRL

Mapcode Global: VHHQC.9R5L

Plus Code: 9F3245MV+H2

Entry Name: Langton Park Lodge

Listing Date: 24 August 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1240480

English Heritage Legacy ID: 438776

ID on this website: 101240480

Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3

County: Kent

District: Tunbridge Wells

Civil Parish: Speldhurst

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Speldhurst St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


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

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