Description

SP 0937
8/35

BROADWAY CP
HIGH STREET (north side)
No 34 (Forge House)

GV
II
Shop. Possibly C17 with C14 remains and alterations of c1900. Rendered timber-framing and limestone rubble with stone slate roof. One storey with attic. Gabled cross-wing at left. On the ground floor is a continuous shop front of c1900, with three plate-glass windows and two doorways. The cross-wing has a timber sashed oriel window on the first floor, with glazing bars to the upper sashes. The main part of the building has an attic dormer. Right-hand gable wall, of exposed rubble, coped with chimney. At the rear is a parallel range which has a mullioned attic dormer facing north. The left-hand (west) wall of the cross-wing is rendered on the first floor and has a small timber window of two pointed trefoiled lights: this is probably C14.

Interior: the ground floor room of the cross-wing has a stone inglenook with bressummer. Upper storey not accessible at time of survey (December 1986).

Listing NGR: SP0968937547

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509570

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Recommended Books

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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  For the Record
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)