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Church Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Tong, Shropshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.6642 / 52°39'51"N

Longitude: -2.3026 / 2°18'9"W

OS Eastings: 379632

OS Northings: 307426

OS Grid: SJ796074

Mapcode National: GBR 06X.STK

Mapcode Global: WH9DC.L9RF

Plus Code: 9C4VMM7W+MX

Entry Name: Church Farmhouse

Listing Date: 26 May 1955

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1053612

English Heritage Legacy ID: 255318

ID on this website: 101053612

Location: Tong, Shropshire, TF11

County: Shropshire

Civil Parish: Tong

Traditional County: Shropshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire

Church of England Parish: Tong St Bartholomew

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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Description


SJ 70 NE
6/22

TONG CP
NEWPORT ROAD (North side)
Church Farmhouse

26/5/55

GV
II
Inn, now house. Early C17 with partial early C19 re-facing and mid to late C19 additions. Timber framed with sandstone plinth and painted brick nogging, painted brick facing to right, painted brick to right at rear, and old tile roof, hipped to right. L-plan with three framed bays to front. Two storeys with gable lit attics.

Framing: close studding with tension braces and straight corner braces, jettied first floor to left with moulded bressumer and three brackets with carved heads; central ridge stack, stack to left at rear, two end stacks to right, and end stack to wing at rear. C19 wooden mullioned and transomed casements, four on first floor, and three on ground floor to left; projecting ground floor square bay to right with dentil brick eaves cornice, catslide roof, and glazing bar sash to front with flush frame; seven steps up to door between first and second windows from right with six raised and fielded panels, three-light overlight,and doorcase with reeded pilasters supporting entablature with dentil cornice. Queen post truss exposed in left-hand gable end.

Interior: ground floor room off-centre to right with chamfered beam and joists; first floor room to left with panelling dated 1625 above fireplace, and moulded beam; queen post roof trusses, somewhat altered.

Formerly The Bell Inn, Charles Dickens reputedly wrote The Old Curiosity Shop while staying here.

Listing NGR: SJ7963207426

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