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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 96 SW 1164
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:TONGE MILL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1837 to 1866

Summary from record TQ 96 SW 1052:

Tonge Corn Mill

Grid Reference:TQ 9344 6356
Map Sheet:TQ96SW
Parish:TONGE, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Unknown date)
  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1837 AD to 1866 AD)
  • CORN MILL (Earlier than 1870, Post Medieval to Modern - 1870 AD to 2000 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1338569: TONGE MILL

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 96 SW TONGE CHURCH ROAD (west side)
2/180 Tonge Mill 27.8.52 GV II
Mill and mill house. 1837 and 1866. Yellow stock brick and slate roofs. Convex curving range of 4 buildings and stack along the roadside. To left: 2 storey and hipped block with loft door and glazing bar sash on first floor, 2 blocked windows on ground floor. Centre: Mill house, 3 storeys on plinth with pilaster strip quoins and parapet. Two glazing bar sashes on second floor, 1 on first floor with loft door, 2 on ground floor with central boarded door in semi- circular headed surround with plaque over inscribed: T D 1837 To right: 2 storeys and sloping roof with 1 glazing bar casement and boarded door in large semi-circular headed surrounds on ground floor, with plaque over door, inscribed: B + S 1866 Similar block to right, no openings and chimney, approx. 100 foot height, square section and tapering with oversailing cornice cap.
Listing NGR: TQ9345163560

Description from record TQ 96 SW 1052:
Tonge Mill, mill and mill pond shown on 1st,2nd, 3rd and current edition OS (1,2,3). Photgraphs (4-11).


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

Countryside Commission/Dr Nicola Bannister, 1995, Tonge Mill Sittingbourne Kent: Historic Landscape Survey (Unpublished document). SWX6786.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1893-7, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898 (Map). SWX11832.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1905-10, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912 (Map). SWX11833.

<4> 1986, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11318.

<5> 1985, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11315.

<6> 1985, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11314.

<7> 1985, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11313.

<8> 1985, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11312.

<9> 1985, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11311.

<10> 1986, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11307.

<11> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9621.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
---Unpublished document: Countryside Commission/Dr Nicola Bannister. 1995. Tonge Mill Sittingbourne Kent: Historic Landscape Survey.
<1>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500.
<2>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1893-7. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898. 1:2500.
<3>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1905-10. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912. 1:2500.
<4>Photograph (Print): 1986. Photograph. TQ9363/9. print.
<5>Photograph (Print): 1985. Photograph. TQ9363/6. print.
<6>Photograph (Print): 1985. Photograph. TQ9363/5. print.
<7>Photograph (Print): 1985. Photograph. TQ9363/4. print.
<8>Photograph (Print): 1985. Photograph. TQ9363/3. print.
<9>Photograph (Print): 1985. Photograph. TQ9363/2. print.
<10>Photograph (Print): 1986. Photograph. TQ9363/10. print.
<11>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4284. print.