FORGE COTTAGE AND RAFTERS

FORGE COTTAGE, DONCASTER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252766
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: FORGE COTTAGE AND RAFTERS
Statutory Address:: FORGE COTTAGE, DONCASTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252766
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: FORGE COTTAGE AND RAFTERS
Statutory Address 1:: FORGE COTTAGE, DONCASTER ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: RAFTERS, DONCASTER ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: FORGE COTTAGE, DONCASTER ROAD
Statutory Address:: RAFTERS, DONCASTER ROAD

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

District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Hessle and Hill Top
National Grid Reference:: SE4107217115

Details

SE 41 NW 5/17

HESSLE AND HILLTOP DONCASTER ROAD, (north side) Wragby Forge Cottage and Rafters

GV II

Pair of cottages. Probably later C18; altered. Handmade brown brick and some sandstone, stone slate roof. Rectangular plan, each cottage of 2 units with continuous rear outshut. Two storeys, both almost symmetrical; Forge Cottage (on the left) has joints in the brickwork indicating the position of the former doorway, Rafters (on the right) has a similarly blocked doorway with a stone lintel; both have 2 windows on each floor, all square, with stone sills, and those at ground floor with stone lintels; Forge Cottage has a 4-pane sash and a 2-light horizontal sliding sash at ground floor, but all other windows have altered glazing (with glazing bars). Chimneys at left gable and on ridge at junction. Left gable wall of Forge Cottage has an inserted doorway with small glazed porch and a 4-pane sash towards the rear, and stone quoins to the rear corner, the rear wall being of coursed squared sandstone. (Attached at right-hand end of Rafters is an altered former wagon house of stone, and at the rear a modern addition, neither of which is included in the item).

Listing NGR: SE4107217115

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Legacy System number:: 435870
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.