TOP FORGE COTTAGE

TOP FORGE COTTAGE, FORGE LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233963
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: TOP FORGE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: TOP FORGE COTTAGE, FORGE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233963
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: TOP FORGE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: TOP FORGE COTTAGE, FORGE LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: TOP FORGE COTTAGE, FORGE LANE

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

District:: Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Hunshelf
National Grid Reference:: SK2942099882

Details

SK 29 NE 11/51A

HUNSHELF FORGE LANE Top Forge Cottage

II

Office, now cottage. Late C18 with C19 alterations. Coursed rubble and ashlar with slate roofs. A lateral and a gabled wall stack. Single storey plus attic. 3 bay front with central C20 glazed door reached up 5 steps. To the left a single glazing bar sash, with to the left again another single glazing bar sash set in the projecting angle facade, both these windows are linked by a continuous cill band. To the right a tripartite plain sash. Above over the central door a 4 light casement in a gabled dormer. This building is the former office to Wortley Top Forge, and it is situated within the context of this scheduled ancient monument. It is one of only 3 surviving water-powered hammer forges in the UK.

Listing NGR: SK2942099882

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Legacy System number:: 409585
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.