Description

SJ 70 NE
6/34

TONG CP
NEWPORT ROAD (east side)
The Red House

26/5/55

GV
II
House. Dated 1766 on brick to front. Red brick with old tile roof. L-plan. Three storeys with two storey wing to rear. Moulded stone plinth, giant order of end pilaster strips, moulded wooden eaves cornice, stone coped parapet gable end, end stacks and stack to rear.

Three bays; windows with C19 wooden mullioned and transomed casements, bracketed cills, gauged heads, and projecting keystones. Central six-panelled door with top four panels glazed, doorcase with moulded architrave, frieze and cornice, and C19 wrought iron lattice porch with tented hood.

Two storey outbuilding set back to right of red brick with tile roof; plinth, eaves band, dentilled brick eaves cornice, and parapeted gable end. Two C20 casements with segmental relieving arches flanking central blocked segmental arched doorway. RP/AP/MP inscribed on bricks to front.

Interior: C18 two-flight dog-leg staircase with open string, turned balusters, and inlaid moulded ramped handrail.

Listing NGR: SJ7969207360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26649136

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings