| Description | 248 250 (Ashfield), Tong Street, Tong. Late 18th stone house with loom shop or upstairs store added in the early 19th century.
248 250 (Ashfield), Tong Street was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Lucy Caffyn as part of the WYAS/RCHME Workers' Housing Survey in 1982. The photographic image produced by the assessment is held by WYAAS (Caffyn, L (WYAS/RCHME). 1982). The field work report is transcribed below:
'Weavers; two storey.
250, Ashfield, Tong.
This is a substantial stone house, with a taking in door on the first floor at the rear, indicating its use for weaving (or other industrial purposes).
The sandstone blocks are regular in size; and there are quoins at the corners. The chimney stack and roof are also of stone. The front door has a stone surround, with interrupted jambs, and the taking in door likewise. The windows also have stone surrounds, the jambs and sills being made up of two pieces of stone, of unequal length. In the gable there is a small widow fitted with two hinges. At the rear the walling under the taking in door is of irregular sized stones, irregularly laid.
There are four flues, implying four heated rooms. The position of the windows indicates the house is two rooms wide and one room deep; but the first floor may have originally been one large room, if it was used for weaving.
It was probably built in the late 18th century; then altered c.1820, the windows heightened, the eaves raised, the taking in door added (possibly for storage/other activity where not much light is needed). The heating in every room may be an even later alteration.
(Caffyn, L (WYAS/RCHME). 1982. 'Weavers; two storey. 250, Ashfield, Tong'). |