Listed Building: NUT TREE HALL (1204560)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 190, 6, 10
Date assigned 01 August 1952
Date last amended

Description

TQ 6053 PLAXTOL GRANGE HILL 6/10 (south side) 1.8.52 Nut Tree Hall II House. C16 continuous jetty house, restored and altered in early C20 by Charles Harrison Townsend for Sir William Allchin, Edward VII's physician. North front. Stone plinth, close-studded timber-framing above with plaster infilling. Continuous jetty carried on exposed joists and brackets, stepped down under right-hand gable. Plain tiled roof with return gables at both end. Ridge stack to right, hipped semi-dormer in centre. Scalloped barge-boards to gables. Two storeys; 3 windows, diamond lattice casements, except small rectangular oriels under jetty at each end. East front. Close studed framing, the left-hand section probably a later addition. Two storeys; irregular 2 window front, diamond lattice casements. Entrance on ground floor at right, glazed. Interior. Hall. Brough-in panelling. Dining room. C16 fireplace with chambered bressumers. Brought-in panelling with low reeded cornice. Sitting room first floor gallery added circa 1905 by Townsend. Drawing room. C16 fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Crown post in first floor room at north-west corner, supporting roof of right-hand return gable of north front. Listing NGR: TQ6035053871

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6035 5387 (point)
Map sheet TQ65SW
Civil Parish PLAXTOL, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 11:31AM