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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- Reference:
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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409585
- 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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