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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 95 NE 78
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:TONG HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1499


Grid Reference:TQ 9594 5623
Map Sheet:TQ95NE
Parish:EASTLING, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1490 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1054811: TONG HOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 95 NE EASTLING TONG LANE (south side)
Tong House 4/29 24.1.67 II
Wealden hall house, now house. C15. Timber framed and exposed with plaster infill and part underbuilt with painted brick, with plain tiled roof. Four framed bays, with framed and continuously jettied wing to right rear. Two storeys on flint plinth with left and right end bays jettied on dragon posts, the left jetty underbuilt. Flying wall plate on solid curved braces and hipped roof with gablets and stacks to rear right, centre right and projecting end left. Irregular fenestration of one 2 storey canted bay window to centre left, and 4 wooden casements on first floor and 4 glazing bar sashes and 1 wooden casement in bay window on ground floor. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels to left with semi-circular traceried fan. Four centre arched door surround to original screens passage to centre right, with carved head and carvings of pelican and cockatrice in spandrels. Interior: smoke blackening, crown post roof. The rear four centred arched door surround to screens passage has been moved to rear of present front door. Stack inserted into hell originally backing onto screens passage.
Listing NGR: TQ9594656236 (1)

Previously Listed as TQ 95 NE 24

Large double Wealden house with a formerly open 2-bay hall and an unusual lower end wing. Both ends were formerly jettied at the end as well as the front. (2)

Historic England archive material (3)


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<3> Historic England, Archive material associated withf Tong House, Eastling, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57188.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.
<3>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated withf Tong House, Eastling, Listed Building.