Description

SJ 77 NE MOBBERLEY C.P. TOWN LANE

6/74 Forge Cottage.

II

House (formerly village forge and blacksmith's house), 1775. Red
Flemish bond and English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. 2
storeys. Road frontage of Flemish bond with vitrified headers.
Darker plum-coloured brick used for corners and forming vertical
patterns of alternating headers and stretchers. Central slightly
projecting bay with rubbed brick basket arch to carriage doorway with
keystone and stone skewbacks. Archway now bricked in and containing
leaded 2-light wooden casement window. Upper 2-light casement with
splayed head of rubbed brick and keystone. 2 ground floor windows'to
left: 3-light casement with splayed head and keystone at far left.
To the right of it a splayed-headed opening with keystone, originally
extending lower to form a doorway but now a 2-light casement window.
Right hand ground floor windows now bricked up. First floor windows:
3-light casement to left with blind window adjacent containing
datestone inscribed ID 1775. 3-light casement to right. All first
floor windows have splayed heads and keystones. Gable ends of English
garden wall bond. 2 ridge chimney-stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ7860679614

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432369

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