The Red House
The Red House, Newport Road, Tong, TF11 8PW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367650
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Red House
- Statutory Address:
- The Red House, Newport Road, Tong, TF11 8PW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367650
- Date first listed:
- 26-May-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Red House
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Red House, Newport Road, Tong, TF11 8PW
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:
- The Red House, Newport Road, Tong, TF11 8PW
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 79687 07357
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 304
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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