Forge Cottage
FORGE COTTAGE, TOWN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139526
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE, TOWN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139526
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGE, TOWN LANE
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:
- FORGE COTTAGE, TOWN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mobberley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 78606 79614
Details
SJ 77 NE MOBBERLEY C.P. TOWN LANE
6/74 Forge Cottage.
II
House (formerly village forge and blacksmith's house), 1775. Red Flemish bond and English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. 2 storeys. Road frontage of Flemish bond with vitrified headers. Darker plum-coloured brick used for corners and forming vertical patterns of alternating headers and stretchers. Central slightly projecting bay with rubbed brick basket arch to carriage doorway with keystone and stone skewbacks. Archway now bricked in and containing leaded 2-light wooden casement window. Upper 2-light casement with splayed head of rubbed brick and keystone. 2 ground floor windows'to left: 3-light casement with splayed head and keystone at far left. To the right of it a splayed-headed opening with keystone, originally extending lower to form a doorway but now a 2-light casement window. Right hand ground floor windows now bricked up. First floor windows: 3-light casement to left with blind window adjacent containing datestone inscribed ID 1775. 3-light casement to right. All first floor windows have splayed heads and keystones. Gable ends of English garden wall bond. 2 ridge chimney-stacks.
Listing NGR: SJ7860679614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58449
- 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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