Forge Cottage
FORGE COTTAGE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244254
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244254
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- FORGE COTTAGE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Seal
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54945 56771
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:
TQ 5456 NE SEAL CHURCH ROAD (south side) 27/992 Forge Cottage
GV II
Cottage. C15, remodelled in early C17 and with later alterations. Timber- framed with colour-washed brick and wattle and daub infill and with arch bracing (original to building but reset in present position); tile-hung cladding to sides; hipped plain old tile roof with gambrel to right; brick ridge stack and C19 brick right end stack. C15 open-hall dwelling remodelled as 2-unit plan in early C17. 2 storeys, with cellar; 2-window range. Mid C20 entry to cellar. Mid C20 hipped brick porch. Mid C20 2-light windows and gabled half dormer. Mid C20 brick outshut to rear. Interior: C15 smoke-blackened common-rafter roof of 2 bays with jowled storey posts and deep arch bracing to C15 truss on right; truncated half-bay to right of this truss. Ground floor has joists to ceiling of small former service room on left and larger room to right with chamfered beam, ogee-stopped chamfered wall beam to left and open fireplace with chamfered bressummer and stone jambs; C18/19 winder staircase to rear of stack. Cellar has dressed stone walls and late C18 brick barrel-vaulted roof.
Listing NGR: TQ5494556772
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 449173
- 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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