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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26499992

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)