The Old Forge
THE OLD FORGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173858
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FORGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173858
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD FORGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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 03572 10632
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146) TL 0310 (West side) 10/138 The Old Forge
GV II
House and forge attached, now all one house. C16, forge c.1700, brick front mid C19. Timber frame on red brick sill, infilled with red brick of different periods, front rebuilt in red brick, red colourwashed. Steep old red tile roofs. A 3-bays, 1½ storeys, former open hall house, set back from road, facing E, with structural closed partitions defining the longer hall-bay, chamfered and stopped joists and axial beam in N parlour-bay, S bay still part open to roof as is tall timber framed forge building extending to rear and enclosing NW corner of house. C19 brick front has short gabled projection in middle, a door to right of projection and a window beyond it. Window to each floor of projection and gabled dormer RH. Tall later C17 brick chimney on ridge a third from S end, with corbelled top. 3-light lattice leaded casement windows under cambered gauged red brick arches. Exposed frame of wide spaced studs at rear, with irregular windows and gabled dormers at eaves. Entrance by battened door in angle of wings into forge protected by a tiled pentice extending over rectangular C20 bay window to former forge, which has dark weatherboarding on gable and a large external gable chimney. C18/C19 N external gable chimney to house. Interior has chamfered and stopped beam but plain squared joists to inserted floor in hall-bay, large open fireplace with C16 unclassical reeding-moulded lintel jointed into timber upright at W end. Clasped-purlin roof with straight braces and jowled posts. Edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate. Wooden floor to parlour but no cellar. Front door now opens into parlour.
Listing NGR: TL0611511986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157917
- 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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