Forge Cottage and Rafters
FORGE COTTAGE, DONCASTER ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
- IOE01/10694/24
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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 1:
- FORGE COTTAGE, DONCASTER ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- RAFTERS, DONCASTER 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, 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435870
- 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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