1-4 Almshouses

1-4, Almshouses, Newport Road, Tong, TF11 8PP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176665
Date first listed:: 26-May-1955
List Entry Name:: 1-4 Almshouses
Statutory Address:: 1-4, Almshouses, Newport Road, Tong, TF11 8PP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176665
Date first listed:: 26-May-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: 1-4 Almshouses
Statutory Address 1:: 1-4, Almshouses, Newport Road, Tong, TF11 8PP

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-4, Almshouses, Newport Road, Tong, TF11 8PP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tong
National Grid Reference:: SJ 79708 07340

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/06/2019

SJ 70 NE 6/35

TONG CP NEWPORT ROAD (East side) Almshouses, Nos. 1-4 (consec)

(formerly listed as 1-4, NEWPORT ROAD, previously listed as Almshouses).

26/5/55

GV II Almshouses. Mid C19. Red brick with ashlar dressings, and hipped old tile roof. U-plan. One storey. Plinth, and one central ridge stack to each range. 1:5:1 bay rhythm, that in centre slightly projecting with triangular pedimented gable end above and round archway below with impost blocks. Two-light casements with segmental heads; segmental headed boarded doors in second and sixth bays. Left-hand return front with two two-light casements to right, four-light casements off-centre to left, and boarded door to left. Right-hand return front with two-light casement to left, and boarded door to right.

Listing NGR: SJ7970807340

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Legacy System number:: 255324
Legacy System:: LBS

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 304

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.