TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST FORDCOMBE ROAD (off), ASHURST PARK 7/479 Lake Cottage GV II Stable block to Fernchase Manor (q.v.) formerly known as Ashurst Park. The stables have been partly converted to housing. 1867 (dated on bell); modest C20 conversion. Flemish bond brick with a chamfered stone plinth and sandstone ashlar dressings; red tile roofs; brick stacks. Plan: South west facing. Symmetrically-arranged with a coach house in the centre and front left and right projecting stable wings forming a courtyard completed by a brick wall. The coach house has a rear centre wing. Exterior: Single-storey stable blocks, coach house with an attic, surmounted by clock tower and cupola. Gabled roofs with coped gables with kneeler. 5- bay front elevation to the coach house which has a stone parapet and, in the centre, a gable containing a round-headed loft loading door, partly panelled and partly glazed, with a keyblock. A stone band across the front rises as a hoodmould over the doorways and windows. 3 segmental-headed coach house doors with keyblocks and original paired plank doors. The outer bays each have a pair of 2-light casement windows. Behind the coach house the clock tower has a clock face in a decorated frame, the cupola above with a lead roof and a wrought iron weathervane. The stable blocks have apex finials and shaped bargeboards to the gable ends which have stone quoins and round-headed windows. Stone bands rise as the hoodmoulds to the windows which have keyblocks and have been divided by brick lintels to the C20 casements with glazing bars below. The inner returns of the stable blocks have hollow- chamfered stone cornices over a ;brick dentil frieze. Stone bands rise to form the hoodmoulds of 2 doors (one on each side converted to a window), one flanked by 2-light casement windows. The stable blocks have C20 axial chimney stacks. The stable courtyard is completed by a quadrant brick wall with stone plinth and coping, the gate piers with low pyramidal caps above a brick dentil cornice. The rear elevation of the coach house block is in the same style as the front and includes some original round-headed horned 4-pane sashes. The coach house block includes original groom's accommodation with an original stack with a corbelled brick cornice to the shaft. Interior: not inspected. A handsome C19 stable block. Listing NGR: TQ5319139525