The Forge
THE FORGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031158
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031158
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORGE, THE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Barton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL8922267103
Details
TL 86 NE
1/18
GREAT BARTON
THE STREET
The Forge
GV
II
House and smithy, now forming one long range. C17 and later. One-and-a-half
storeys to house; the smithy is the same height, but has no upper floor.
Timber-framed; the house faced in black knapped flint with white brick
dressings, the smithy weatherboarded; a small linking section between the 2
has roughcast in panels. Plaintiles to the main roof; slates to a single-
storey lean-to at the east end. pierced and fluted bargeboards. One internal
chimney-stack, and another added at the east end. The house has 2 3-light
casement windows with square leaded panes, pintle hinges, and arched heads to
frames and surrounds. 2 gabled dormers with similar 2-light leaded casement
windows. 6-panelled entrance door with raised fielded panels, the top 2
glazed, within an ornate C20 wrought-iron porch. The smithy has 2 typical
industrial windows, divided into high, narrow, vertical lights, on each side
of a half-glazed door. The linking section has 2 gabled dormers, matching
those to the house. There is little framing to be seen in the house, but the
smithy, which is still working, contains all its original fittings and has an
open side-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TL8922267103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284439
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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