Listed Building record TQ 65 SW 125 - NUT TREE HALL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1932 Nut Tree Hall : listed building

Location

Grid reference TQ 60350 53871 (point)
Map sheet TQ65SW
County KENT
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish PLAXTOL, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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 (1)

Description from record TQ 95 SW 105:
Listed building : no additional information available

Historic England archive material: BF040057 NUT TREE HALL, 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. RCH01/048/01/532 Labelled sheet of drawings of Nut Tree Hall, Plaxtol, with a longitudinal section, a sketch plan of the ground-floor, two jamb profiles and two crown-post details


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

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1>XY Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #35946 listed building, ]

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

Record last edited

Sep 3 2024 11:29AM