Forge House
FORGE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057032
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Forge House
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057032
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Forge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE HOUSE
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:
- FORGE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitelackington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3786915387
Details
WHITELACKINGTON CP -
ST3715
Forge House
7/130 (formerly listed as part of
Dillington Park Lodge)
4.2.58
GV II
Semi-detached house. Mostly C18 and C19, possibly with earlier origins. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings;
thatched roof with hipped west gable, continuation to east; ashlar octagonal-plan chimney stacks with moulded caps, set
in pairs. Two storeys; 3 bays, of which bay 3 is a projecting 2-storey porch. Casement windows of 3-lights, early
pattern with iron-framed opening lights, the lower with timber lintels; projecting porch has a 4-centred chamfered
archway below, with a C20 inner door in new frame; above a blind chamfered lancet window, with similar blind windows to
sides at lower level: traces of a former opening to left of bay 1. Against west gable a single-storey wing of 3 bays
with double-Roman clay tiled roof and brick chimney stacks; bays 1 and 2 have 2-light leaded windows in brick- lined
openings; bay 3 is a wide open porch with side doorways into the forge (still in use as such January 1986) and the main
house. Interiors not seen. Attached on east side to Dillington Park Lodge (q.v).
Listing NGR: ST3786915387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264022
- 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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