Listed Building record TQ 65 SW 107 - TREE HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1667 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 6024 5392 (point)
Map sheet TQ65SW
County KENT
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish PLAXTOL, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 6053 PLAXTOL GRANGE HILL 6/9 (north side)
1.8.52 Tree House
II
House. Late C17 with C18 facade, altered in C19. Red and blue brick with red dressings; right-hand bay with red brick ground floor and tile-hung first floor. Parapet with stone coping to plain tiled roof. Three flat-headed dormers, and stacks and one ridge stack to right. Two storeys and attic; 4 windows, slightly irregular, glazing bar sashes on first floor, 3 canted bays on ground floor. One half-glazed door to left. The house is L-shaped with C19 two-storey red brick wing to the rear.
Listing NGR: TQ6025053921 (1)

Timber framed 3-bay house incorporating formerly open 1-bay hall. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040074 TREE HOUSE, PLAXTOL File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/534 Labelled sheet of drawings of Tree House, Yopps Green, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor, a dais beam profile, and a perspective sketch showing the broach stop to a door jamb chamfer RCH01/048/02/014 Perspective views of the floors of the Tree House, Plaxtol This is figure fifteen in the book.


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
  • <2> Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Medieval Houses Of Kent: Architectural Survey (EKE20338)

Record last edited

Sep 3 2024 1:44PM