Description

SJ 70 NE
6/21

TONG CP
NEWPORT ROAD (north side)
Stable wing adjoining Church Farmhouse to west

(formerly listed as Church Farmhouse).

26/5/55

GV
II
Stables. Circa 1600 and late C17 with early and mid C19 partial re-facing and additions. Timber framed with sandstone plinth and white painted brick nogging, squared and coursed sandstone, red brick and old tile roofs. L-plan with two framed bays to front and remains of one framed bay in wing to rear. One storey.

Framing: square panels with straight braces; queen post truss with v-struts exposed in left-hand gable end of c.1600 block. Two gabled eaves dormers to rear, and ridge stack off-centre to right. Central carriage entrance. Early C19 battlemented parapet gable end to rear with recessed blank straight sided arches; the early C19 alterations are stylistically similar to other structures in the area associated with George Durant the younger (d.1844) of Tong Castle (qv. Cow House to North of Acorn Cottage, etc.).

Listing NGR: SJ7960907424

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471227

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5