The Forge

THE FORGE, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162504
Date first listed:
06-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
The Forge
Statutory Address:
THE FORGE, CHURCH STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1162504
Date first listed:
06-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
The Forge
Statutory Address 1:
THE FORGE, CHURCH 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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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, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Scawby
National Grid Reference:
SE 97054 05556

Details

SE 9605-9705 SCAWBY CHURCH STREET (north side)

19/84 The Forge

GV II

Smithy. Mid - late C18 with C20 stack and alterations to rear gable end. For Nelthorpe Estate. Roughly-coursed limestone rubble with red brick dressings and stack. Pantile roof. Rectangular on plan: 2 rooms with outshut to rear right; gable-end to street. Single storey, one window to side. Original entrance to front gable end. Quoins. Street front has twin elliptical arches on brick piers with ashlar impost bands and projecting keystones: board door to right, window to left with vertical glazing bars and board shutters in recessed brick blocking. Brick tumbling to gable; pair of iron tie-bar ends. Left return, alongside Park Lane, has 2-light sliding casement with vertical glazing bars and pair of board shutters, stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice, small C20 stack above. Right return has 2-fold board door beneath timber lintel. Rear has C20 door beneath rebuilt gable. Interior contains 2 hearths, one stone-built and probably original, the other C20, of brick. An early and largely unaltered estate smithy.

Listing NGR: SE9705405556

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
166045
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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