The Old Forge
THE OLD FORGE, GADDESDEN ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173527
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FORGE, GADDESDEN ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173527
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD FORGE, GADDESDEN ROW
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, GADDESDEN ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 06181 11919
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN GADDESDEN ROW TL 01 SE (South side) 4/98 The Old Forge -
GV II
House and forge, now all one house. Early C17 house, brick front early C18, catslide rear extension and brick forge extending to N mid C18. Timber frame with brick infill exposed externally only at rear, red brick, steep old red tile roofs, forge hipped at N end. A 2-storeys and attic, 2-cells, lobby entry plan house, facing E, with gabled rear stair tower, catslide rear outshut, gabled front porch, and single-storey brick forge attached on N with entrance in N end facing road. E front has 3 windows to upper floor and central battened door in porch. Attics lit by gable end windows. 3-light casement windows, renewed. Timber frame exposed inside, with narrow central chimney and entrance bay flanked by a single large bay on each side. S room more important with axial ovolo-moulded ceiling beam c.1620 and exposed chamfered joists. N room similar but with simple chamfer to axial beam. Ovolo-moulded fireplace lintel to each room and fireplaces originally on floor above, but chimney stack removed as unsafe and replaced by new staircase. Bathroom in former rear stair tower. Swept-jowled posts and straight braces to wallplate. Wide-spaced studs, framing for blocked windows in rear wall, clasped-purlin roof on collar-and-queen-strut trusses with straight wind-braces. Original attic floor on chamfered beams and square sawn joists, and full-height framed partition enclosing the chimney bay. Corner cupboard built in NE corner of ground floor N room with shaped shelves and hermicycle head in upper part with double doors and panelled door to lower part. Brought from 3, St. Agnell's Cottages, near Hemel Hempstead.
Listing NGR: TL0611511986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157877
- 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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