The Red House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SJ 70 NE TONG C.P. NEWPORT ROAD (East side)

6/34 The Red House.

26/5/55

GV II

House. Dated 1766 on brick to front. Red brick with old tile roof.

L-plan. 3 storeys with 2 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. 3 bays; windows with C19 wooden mullioned and transomed casements, bracketed cills, gauged heads, and projecting keystones. Central 6-panelled door with top 4 panels glazed, doorcase with moulded architrave, frieze and cornice, and C19 wrought iron lattice porch with tented hood. 2 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. N. Pevsner, B.O.E.

Shropshire, p.304.

Listing NGR: SJ7969207360

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1116 IOE Records taken by Val Johns; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mrs Val Johns. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project