The Forge

THE FORGE, 27, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127034
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1981
List Entry Name:
The Forge
Statutory Address:
THE FORGE, 27, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1127034
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1981
Date of most recent amendment:
15-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
The Forge
Statutory Address 1:
THE FORGE, 27, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE FORGE, 27, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Swaffham Prior
National Grid Reference:
TL5683364100

Details

TL 5664
12/169
5.2.1981

SWAFFHAM PRIOR
HIGH STREET
(East Side)
No 27 The Forge (formerly listed as The Forge)

GV
II

Cottage, early C18. Red brick. Plinth and peg tiled roof with
end stack and coped right gable with kneelers. Brick eaves
course carried across gable as string course. Left gable end
rebuilt in C19. One and half storeys, one window and one flat
roof dormer, both with horizontal sliding sashes with glazing
bars. Door with three steps to street. Included for group
value.

Listing NGR: TL5683364100

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
49393
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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