Description

TQ 96 SW TONGE LOWER ROAD
(north side)

2/185 Bax Farmhouse

27.8.52 II*

House. C15 and 1567. Timber framed and exposed close-studding with
plaster infill, underbuilt and extended with red brick, and
chequered flint and ragstone, with plain tiled roofs. L-plan.
North front: 2 storeys on plinth, ragstone and flint ground floor,
with moulded brick string course and close-studded first floor.
Hipped roof with offset stacks to end left, and octagonal stack
to end right. Wood oriel with transomed lights and blocked side
lights to left and shallow oriel to right on first floor, and 7 light wood
mullioned window with brick surround to left and 3 light wood mullioned
window to right on ground floor. Plank and muntin door to centre
right with moulded brick surrounds dated 1567 on stone plaque over door.
South front: red brick in English bond, storeys on plinth with string
course and crowstep gable. One 3 light brick mullioned window with
dripmould to each floor. East front: 2 storeys on plinth, red brick
and ragstone and flint chequered on ground floor and close-studded first
floor. Two large projecting stacks offset, rising to brick diagonal
set flues, 2 left and 3 right. Plank and muntin door set in recessed
entry between 2 stacks.

Listing NGR: TQ9435963823

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546479

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)