The Old Forge
THE OLD FORGE, KINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082494
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FORGE, KINGTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1082494
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD FORGE, KINGTON 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, KINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eardisley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO3104049662
Details
EARDISLEY CP
KINGTON ROAD (west side)
SO 3049 - 3149
7/75
16.10.67
The Old Forge
II
Former smithy and house, now house. Probably late C16, altered mid-C19
and mid-C20. Timber-framed with painted brick infill on rubble base, partly
roughcast and weatherboarded with machine-tiled roof and brick ridge stack.
Four framed bays aligned north/south. The two southernmost bays are larger
and have an external rubble chimney with a brick stack on the east side. There
is a chimney at the junction with the two narrower north bays. Two storeys.
Framing: four panels from sill to wall-plate. First floor is jettied to the
south-west on a moulded bressummer. The jetty at the south end has been under-
built but the gable is still also jettied. No trusses exposed. East front
elevation: on the ground floor there is a 3-light casement and two single-
light casements with plank weatherings. On the first floor are four 2-light
casements and a square light. Main entrance to right of centre has a gabled
canopy on metal brackets and a half-glazed C20 door with a ,moulded architrave.
At the right end is a. double doorway. (RCHM, III, p 53, item 6).
Listing NGR: SO3104049662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150630
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 53
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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