Old Forge Cottage
OLD FORGE COTTAGE, LITTLE ST MARY'S
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033635
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Old Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE, LITTLE ST MARY'S
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1033635
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Old Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE, LITTLE ST MARY'S
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:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE, LITTLE ST MARY'S
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Babergh (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Melford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86264 45127
Details
TL 8645
21/548
Long Melford
Little St Mary's (East Side)
Old Forge Cottage
23.3.61
GV
II
The cross wing of a medieval timber-framed and plastered hall house with
a small part of the hall block surviving on the south end. Altered in
the C16-C17. 2 storeys. The former cross wing is jettied on the front,
on curved brackets. The exposed timber-framing on the north side is of
C14 type and may have been part of an earlier building. 2 window range,
C20 casements with glazing bars on the upper storey and leaded lights
on the ground storey. There is a central doorway. Roof thatched. The
small part of the earlier hall block is tiled and the studding is exposed
on the upper storey.
Listing NGR: TL8626445127
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 278300
- 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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