Description

TQ 82 NW NORTHIAM HIGH PARK

7/3 Great Dixter

3.8.61
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This house was restored and arranged in its present fashion by Sir Edwin Lutyens
in 1910-1912 for Nathaniel Lloyd, the author of "The History of the English
House" and other standard works. It is in three parts. The north-west wing is a
timber-framed hall-house of unusually fine proportions and preservation, 1464-
1479 circa. The south-east wing is a house of a similar type but smaller size
which was brought here from Benenden in Kent and re-erected. The north-east wing
is a Lutyens addition containing the offices built on the site of the buttery
wing of the original house, demolished before 1909. The original portion of the
house is close-studded. The first floor of the north-westernmost window bay on
the entrance front oversails on the protruding ends of the floor joists. It has
a gable above the scalloped bargeboards. At the other end of the front is a
2-storey gabled porch with its first floor oversailing on a bressummer and
brackets, the ground floor with open arcaded sides. Two tiers of 5 windows made
up of thin round-headed lights. The garden front has wide overhanging eaves
supported on brackets and a projecting tile hung portion at the north west end.
The end wall has a massive sandstone chimney breast. Tiled roof. Inside, the
subsequently-inserted first floor has been removed from the hall, and both this
and the solar at the north west end have their original king-post roofs, the
former also hammer beams. The Benenden house is also close-studded. Its east
front is jettied on the protruding ends of the floor joists. Tiled roof.
Original windows with wooden mullions. Two storeys. Three windows. The modern
wing added by Lutyens is of red brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above.
Tiled roof. Two storeys. Four windows.

Listing NGR: TQ8196825105

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Great Dixter at Wikipedia
• Great Dixter official website
• Wikidata Q5599070

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)