Great Tong
GREAT TONG, TONG LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060817
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Great Tong
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT TONG, TONG LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060817
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Great Tong
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT TONG, TONG LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT TONG, TONG LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Headcorn
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 83231 46487
Details
HEADCORN TONG LANE TQ 84 NW (South side) 5/101 26.4.68 Great Tong
GV II
Farmhouse. C16 or earlier, with later additions and alterations. Mid-to-late C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick in Flemish bond, banded plain and fishscale tiles to first floor. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Roof hipped with gablets. Slender projecting stack to left end. 2 rear stacks towards centre and brick ridge stack towards right end. Irregular fenestration of 8 sashes; six 6-pane and two 2-pane (5 grouped towards centre). 2 canted bays to ground floor with ogee leaded roofs, and three 6-pane sashes. Central half-glazed and panelled door with flat bracketed hood. Rear lean-to to left. Rear wing towards right, with multiple brick ridge stack. Interior not inspected, but said to contain smoke bay.
Listing NGR: TQ8323146487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174329
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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