Walnut Tree House is a Grade II* listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. A Medieval House.
Walnut Tree House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-rood-plum
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Walnut Tree House, South Street, Boughton Under Blean
- OS grid reference
- TR 054 577
- Coordinates
- 51.28227, 0.94491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree House is a 15th-century Wealden hall house located on South Street in Boughton. The building is timber framed and exposed, featuring painted brick and plaster infill, and consists of four framed bays. It has a plain tiled roof and stands two storeys high on a plinth. The large panelled frame includes tension braces, with the end bays jettied on dragon posts at the left and supported by brackets at the right. A flying wall plate over the central bays is carried on arched braces. The roof is hipped, with stacks located at the end left, centre left, and end right. The first floor has four wooden casements of various sizes, while the ground floor has three casements and two rib and stud doors set in four-centred arched surrounds to the centre left. There is a catslide outshot to the left. Inside, the house features a crown post roof.
Local climate
Walnut Tree House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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