The Old Forge
THE OLD FORGE, MENDLESHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032227
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FORGE, MENDLESHAM ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-07-22
- Reference:
- IOE01/07566/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1032227
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1977
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD FORGE, MENDLESHAM ROAD
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 OLD FORGE, MENDLESHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 11750 66868
Details
WETHERINGSETT-CUM-BROCKFORD BROCKFORD, MENDLESHAM TM 16 NW ROAD 6/105 The Old Forge 1.11.77
-- II House, latterly 3 cottages. Early C16. Timber framed and rendered, thatched roof. 2 cells of high quality, the service end to north lost. 2 storeys and attic. Underbuilt jetty to east, facing the Ipswich-Norwich road. 3 windows, mid C20 3-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. 2 old plank doors, mid C20 French windows to right. One eyebrow dormer. Main stack has rebuilt axial shaft. A further stack of narrow red brick against north gable end. Small mid C20 porch on south gable end. To rear (west), a 2-storey lean-to of rendered clay lump under a slated roof. Interior. Hall and parlour have fine ceilings: fully-moulded floorbeams with a complex series of rolls and hollows, joists with 2 hollow mouldings and cut-back stops. The hall is now divided into 2 rooms. Evidence for service doorways at north gable end. Intact heavy studding with no visible bracing; close studding to east on upper floor; evidence for many original windows: these probably had square mullions. Ground floor studs to east pushed forward to underbuild jetty, perhaps in C17. Truss over hall chamber has shallow braces and carries a plain crown-post with 2-way bracing to the collar purlin and cranked down braces to the tie beam. Remainder of crown-post roof intact. Stack is a later addition, probably preceded by a timber flue or smoke bay as the timbers in the narrow bay which the stack occupies are smoke stained. C17 upper ceilings.
Listing NGR: TM1175066868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281690
- 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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