Old Forge Cottage
OLD FORGE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284682
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284682
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE
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:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Ashfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 00674 68085
Details
TM 06 NW GT ASHFIELD LONG THURLOW
3/51 Old Forge Cottage -
-- II
House, early C15 with alterations of C16 and C17. An open hall house with complex alterations resulting in a plan of 4 cells by early/mid C16. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof, hipped at right hand end. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in C19 red brick. C19 small-pane casements. A C19 boarded door at cross-entry position with C19 porch on slender posts and with trelliswork sides. Two C19 slated raking dormers with casements. A second C19 entrance door to right of similar form. Interior: A 2-bay open hall at the centre of the house. The open truss has an uncambered tiebeam with chamfered archbraces and shafts beneath. Widely- spaced studding with long arch windbraces and blocked diamond-mullioned windows at front and rear. Altered coupled-rafter roof. A large mid/late C16 chimney in the upper bay and an inserted 1st floor which leaves the archbraces of the medieval open truss rising through it. To right of the chimney is a 2- cell range probably of early/mid C16 with good framing: studding with prominent arch windbraces. The right hand cell has high quality unchamfered 1st floor joists; but the 1st floor in the left hand cell is clamped with chamfered joists, and may be a later C16 insertion. The service cell to left of the hall was rebuilt in early C17.
Listing NGR: TM0067468085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 281154
- 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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