Nut Tree Hall

TQ 6053 PLAXTOL GRANGE HILL 6/10 (south side)

1.8.52 Nut Tree Hall

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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