Description

TL 51 SW MATCHING MATCHING GREEN
Forge Cottage
3/71

GV II

Cottage, C17, altered and extended in C19 and C20. Timber framed with C20
facade of yellow stock bricks. Flemish bond, plastered elsewhere, roof
thatched. 3 bays aligned NE-SW, with original chimney stack in middle bay,
forming a lobby-entrance. C19 brick and thatch extension to rear of SW bay,
forming an L-plan, with lean-to cellar in rear angle, C19. External chimney
stacks at NW and NE, C19/20. Single storey with attics. Plain boarded door
in thatched gabled porch, 2 C20 casement windows, 2 gabled dormers with C20
casement windows. Original large hearth of 23cm. red brickwork facing SE,
reduced for coal fire, forming cupboards to each side, and later blocked.
Inserted hearth in NE upper room. C19 cast-iron grate in C20 chimney in NE
ground floor room. Chamfered beams, with lamb's tongue stops over NE ground
floor room, plastered to soffits of joists. Roof ceiled, but probably of
clasped purlin construction.

Listing NGR: TL5355511279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595475

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)