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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26305330

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)