Tonge Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. Mill. 3 related planning applications.
Tonge Mill
- WRENN ID
- sacred-string-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Tonge Mill, Church Road, ME9 9AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 934 635
- Coordinates
- 51.33828, 0.77581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tonge Mill is a mill and mill house built in 1837 and 1866. It features yellow stock brick and slate roofs, arranged in a convex curving range of four buildings along the roadside. On the left, there is a two-storey hipped block that includes a loft door and a glazing bar sash window on the first floor, along with two blocked windows on the ground floor. In the center is the mill house, which stands three storeys tall on a plinth with pilaster strip quoins and a parapet. It has two glazing bar sashes on the second floor, one on the first floor with a loft door, and two on the ground floor, which also features a central boarded door in a semi-circular headed surround, topped by a plaque inscribed: T D 1837. To the right, there is a two-storey section with a sloping roof, containing one glazing bar casement and a boarded door in large semi-circular headed surrounds on the ground floor, accompanied by a plaque inscribed: B + S 1866. Adjacent to this is a similar block that has no openings and a chimney, approximately 100 feet tall, with a square section that tapers and has an oversailing cornice cap.
Local climate
Tonge Mill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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