The Forge and Little Forge Cottage
THE FORGE AND LITTLE FORGE COTTAGE, GOSPORT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179247
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge and Little Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE AND LITTLE FORGE COTTAGE, GOSPORT ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12528/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179247
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge and Little Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORGE AND LITTLE FORGE COTTAGE, GOSPORT ROAD
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 FORGE AND LITTLE FORGE COTTAGE, GOSPORT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farringdon
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 70516 35072
Details
SU 73 NW FARRINGDON GOSPORT ROAD (Lower Farringdon) 2/32 The Forge and Little Forge Cottage GV II House, now 2 dwellings. C16, C17, C18. Walls are of painted brickwork in Flemish bond, the south wing having exposed framing in the gable (with herring- bone infill) above flint walls with brick dressings; cement plinth. Tile roof ½-hipped at the north end (with a gablet), is taller above the south side crosswing, and hipped above the north wing. A late medieval timber-framed hall, extended as a timber-frame at each end with a cross wing, reclad in the C18, and with a single-storeyed wing forward of the north side. East front: 2 storeys; 1.2 windows. Casements. Boarded door in a plain frame, with a hipped tiled canopy on posts. Inside, the framework shows the cornerposts of a hall with lower eaves, as well as the extended framework (c17?); a large fireplace was attached to the crosswing and the gable later moved outwards to enclose it. The upper room of the crosswing has a plaster ceiling with decorative motifs. of the C17.
Listing NGR: SU7046835336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 142338
- 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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