Description

SE 9605-9705 SCAWBY CHURCH STREET
(north side)

19/84 The Forge

GV II

Smithy. Mid - late C18 with C20 stack and alterations to rear gable end.
For Nelthorpe Estate. Roughly-coursed limestone rubble with red brick
dressings and stack. Pantile roof. Rectangular on plan: 2 rooms with
outshut to rear right; gable-end to street. Single storey, one window to
side. Original entrance to front gable end. Quoins. Street front has twin
elliptical arches on brick piers with ashlar impost bands and projecting
keystones: board door to right, window to left with vertical glazing bars
and board shutters in recessed brick blocking. Brick tumbling to gable;
pair of iron tie-bar ends. Left return, alongside Park Lane, has 2-light
sliding casement with vertical glazing bars and pair of board shutters,
stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice, small C20 stack above. Right return
has 2-fold board door beneath timber lintel. Rear has C20 door beneath
rebuilt gable. Interior contains 2 hearths, one stone-built and probably
original, the other C20, of brick. An early and largely unaltered estate
smithy.

Listing NGR: SE9705405556

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456090

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)