Tong House

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