The Old Forge
THE OLD FORGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098132
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FORGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098132
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD FORGE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Plymtree
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 05439 03524
Details
PLYMTREE NORMANS GREEN ST 00 SE 3/138 The Old Forge - GV II
Cottage. Mid - late C17, enlarged in the late C19 - early C20, modernised with a service extension circa 1980. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; cob stack topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof. Plan: L-plan cottage facing south-east. The main block contains a parlour to left (south-west) with a rear lateral stack and entrance hall to right Behind the entrance hall is a kitchen/living room with a gable-end stack. This kitchen/living room is the historic core of the house. The front block was built in the late C19 - early C20. The original house had a 2-room plan; the larger heated room remains as the kitchen/living room but it seems that the unheated room was extended forward as part of the late C19 - early C20 rebuild and converted to the entrance hall. Cottage is 2 storeys with circa 1980 single storey service extension to rear which now includes the present kitchen. Exterior: irregular 2-window front of late C19 - early C20 casements with glazing bars and flat eyebrows over the first floor windows. The front doorway is near the right end; it contains a C20 door behind a contemporary thatch-roofed porch. The roof is half-hipped each end. The rear block roof (the C17 section) is gable-ended and unusually steeply pitched. One window in the rear block (first floor right on the south-west side) has flat-faced mullions and may be original. Interior: the C17 features are confined to the rear block. The room here has a deeply chamfered crossbeam and a large plastered fireplace with a small chamfer to the oak lintel. It includes a brick oven. The partition between the 2 original rooms remains largely intact. It is a full height closed truss of large scantling close-studded oak framing in which the sides of the posts are drilled with a series of holes to accommodate individual lathes which provide a ladder backing for the cob infil. The rear block has a single bay roof.
Listing NGR: ST0543903524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86894
- 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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