Cottage With Attached Forge

Date:
2 Jun 2002
Location:
Cottage With Attached Forge, East Langton, Harborough, Leicestershire
Reference:
IOE01/07401/24
Type:
Photograph (Digital)
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Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

EAST LANGTON EAST LANGTON SP 7292 & SP 7392 6/2 Cottage with attached forge

GV II

Cottage with attached Smithy. Early C17, early C19, C20. Timber-framed with cob infill, now stuccoed. Slate roof with brick gable stacks. Bargeboarded north gable. Tarred brick plinth. 1 storeys, 2 bays. Single 3-light casement in west wall, with above, 2 gabled dormers, with 2-light casements. Wooden corner post visible at south-west corner. South gable end wall has off-centre doorway with sloping hood on brackets, sheltering C20 part-glazed door and 2-light casement.

Above to right, a small casement in the attic. Interior: much altered in C19 and C20, but ground floor has beam with incised date 1628. Upper floor has chamfered beam with early C17 stop. 1 storey addition to north. Brick, now rendered on ironstone plinth. Slate roof with gable stack. Off-centre doorway with cambered arch and plank door. To left, a blind opening and then a 2-light casement, both with cambered arches. Above, 3 oblong blind openings.

VCH,V 195.

Listing NGR: SP7267492648

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2172 IOE Records taken by George Weston; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr George Weston. Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Weston, George

Rights Holder: Weston, George

Keywords

Brick, Ironstone, Render, Slate, Stucco, Timber, Tudor Blacksmiths Workshop, Elizabethan Industrial, Stuart Metal Workers Workshop, Jacobean Craft Industry Site, Workshop, Industrial Building, Smiths Cottage, Domestic, Industrial House, House, Dwelling, Timber Framed House, Monument (By Form), Timber Framed Building