TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST FORDCOMBE ROAD, ASHURST PARK 7/477 Langton Lodge II Former lodge to Ashurst Park. Circa 1864 by G. Devey with early C20 and circa 1988 extensions. Front of the old lodge is coursed sandstone ashlar, the rear (onto the main road) is random rubble. Gables are timber-framed. Brick stack with panelled brick chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof. Additions in stone, brick and timber-framing. Plan: Lodge faces north east onto the drive to Ashurst Park, lately renamed Fernchase Manor (q.v.). Small 3-room plan house with an axial stack between the centre and right rooms. Left end room is smaller and set back a little from the main front. Originally front door was in the angle of the recess but that doorway now blocked and entrance into C20 extension on right end. Original lodge is single storey. Extensions on the right end are 2 storeys. Exterior: Irregular 2-window front of timber-framed windows with chamfered mouldings and containing diamond panes of leaded glass. Left window (centre bay) is transomed and an oriel under a small gable which is hung with peg tile. Smaller right window under gable of a crossroof which is filled with ornamental timber-framing. Recessed left bay is blind on the front. Eaves carried down in the corner over a porch supported on rustic posts with very irregular rustic branch brackets. Former doorway in the angle blocked by an arch-headed window. The left (south eastern) gable end contains another oriel, this one on a row of shaped timber brackets. Jettied gable above filled with ornamental timber-framing which includes the monogram GF. The rear wall has a projecting semi-circular stair turret. Roof is gable-ended, stepping down to the narrower south eastern bay and with a gabled crossroof the other end. 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. This is the lodge mentioned at Crockers Hatch Corner. Listing NGR: TQ5354839001