The Old Forge
THE OLD FORGE, 83, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127712
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FORGE, 83, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1127712
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD FORGE, 83, 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.
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, 83, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Abington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 53299 48773
Details
TL 5248 GREAT ABINGTON HIGH STREET (South-East Side)
11/5 No. 83 (The Old Forge)
GV II
House, formerly with an attached forge to south-west. Early and late C16, rebuilt and extended late C17. Timber-framed and plastered; thatched roofs with red pantiled roof to right hand partly enclosing the gable end stack and formerly part of the roof to the forge. End stack to cross wing and stack to right hand of main range. Two storeys and one storey and attic; main range with cross passage to left hand and cross wing of two timber-framed bays. Lower extension to right hand of one timber-framed bay added in late C17 when walls of main range were raised and it was reroofed, stacks were inserted and floors to the hall and cross passage; a staircase in a rear outshut beside the main stack was resited in the C19 when perhaps the building was subdivided into three dwellings. Main elevation: two C18 casement windows with leaded lights and one C20 replacement with glazing bars, boarded door in position of cross passage; one first floor horizontal sliding sash window and one casement window , one small horizontal sliding sash window in eyebrow dormer. Interior: Three late C17 red brick hearths, exposed timber-frame showing the three building periods, stop-chamfered floor frames.
Listing NGR: TL5329948773
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 51847
- 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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