Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567066

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)