Cottage With Attached Forge
COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED FORGE, EAST LANGTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061498
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage With Attached Forge
- Statutory Address:
- COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED FORGE, EAST LANGTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061498
- Date first listed:
- 09-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage With Attached Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED FORGE, EAST LANGTON
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:
- COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED FORGE, EAST LANGTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Langton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 72674 92648
Details
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. 1½ 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. 1½ 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 191328
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Leicester, (1964), 195
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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