The Forge
THE FORGE, WHEELERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293009
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE, WHEELERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293009
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORGE, WHEELERS 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:
- THE FORGE, WHEELERS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Navestock
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 55938 96958
Details
NAVESTOCK
TQ59NE WHEELERS LANE, Navestock Side 723-1/5/529 The Forge 20/02/76 (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD WHEELERS LANE, NAVESTOCK SIDE Navestock Princes Gate Cottage and Forge)
II
House and attached forge. House early C16, rebuilt C17; forge C19. Weatherboard cladding late C18/early C19 but rendered over C19/C20; roof peg-tiled. Rectangular house plan comprising a high end cross-wing to the E, originally jettied. 2 storeys. Windows C19, 2 and 3-light casements. INTERIOR: the partition wall to the hall has display bracing and peg and joint holes for the original bench and draught screen. Carpenters assembly marks and the whole sooted where is once abutted onto the open hall, now all gone. Exterior rising arched braces and centre tenon joists remain together with evidence for mullioned windows and shutter grooves. In the C17 the hall was replaced by 2-storey hall and service room, oak framed with primary bracing and exposed ceiling joists. A centre stack and rear stair tower bridging the hall/solar and cut through the framing of the earlier cross-wing. Jetty of cross-wing underbuilt. Later in the C17 lean to outshut N of the W service room. C19 continuation of outshut to meet stair tower and addition of back to back fireplaces in the service room/outshut. Forge added to NE angle. Flimsy timber construction. Forge hearth and hood in brick with iron reinforcement. Renovation work in progress at time of inspection.
Listing NGR: TQ5593896958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373803
- 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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