Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/06/2019

SJ 70 NE
6/36

TONG CP
NEWPORT ROAD (east side)
Tong Hall

GV
II
House. Circa 1840 with late C19 and C20 additions to left. Red brick with grey and gault brick dressings. Neo-Gothic style. Two storeys.

Interrupted dentil brick string course, parapeted gables with dentil bricks to stone coping, end stack to right and stack at rear. Two window front with segmental headed leaded cross windows; gable above with recessed octagonal panel. Right-hand end elevation; two first floor blind pointed-arched windows with Y-tracery, continuous cill string; inserted three-light C20 casement to right, and two gabled ends above; ground floor window to right with painted keyed lintel, and four-trefoil panelled door to its right with painted keyed lintel. Late C19 block set back to north with two gabled semi-dormers and two ground floor C20 leaded casements. C20 addition to left with parapet.

This building has stylistic similarities with other eccentric structures erected on the Tong Estate by George Durant the younger (d.1844) (qv. Fowl House to West of Vauxhall Farmhouse, Cow house to North of Acorn Cottage, etc.).

Included for historical association and group value.

Listing NGR: SJ7971907286

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26305333

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)