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Monument details

Summary

Ashour Lodge house was built on the site of earlier building in 1861. It has dressed stone walls on the ground floor, with a half timber with rendered infil panels to first floor. The roof is made of plain tile and has a stone chimney and has gables. The windows have metal casements in wood and stone frames

Monument Types

• GATE LODGE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1861 AD? to 2007 AD? (between))

Full description

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Ashour Lodge built in 1861 to a George Devey design, on the site of an eariler building. The building is of dressed stone walls on the ground floor, with a half timber with rendered infil panels to first floor. The plain tile roof, with the stone chimney, has gables and a half hexagon over the bay. The gables project with wood brackets at the corners and are part tile hung and part half timbered. The windows have metal casements in wood and stone frames.(1)

Additional Info (2)

<1> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.

<2> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.

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