Forge Cottage
Forge Cottage, Park Lane, Carhampton
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295814
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Forge Cottage, Park Lane, Carhampton
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295814
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jan-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Forge Cottage, Park Lane, Carhampton
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, Park Lane, Carhampton
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 00695 42493
Details
ST0042
15/17
CARHAMPTON CP
CARHAMPTON VILLAGE
Forge Cottage
(Formerly listed as Forge Cottage and gate adjoining to east. Previously listed as Laurel Cottage)
22.5.69
II
Cottage. C15, altered C16, enlarged C18. Rendered over rubble, cob in rear wing, thatched roof, large external stack left gable end, large lateral stack to right of entrance with circular chimney.
T-plan: probably open hall house with low ground floor partitions, now three-cell and cross passage with smithy adjoining to west and wing at rear. One and a half storeys, mainly C18-early C19 leaded iron casements, some with quadrant stays, dormer windows rising from eaves flanking stack, one to right C17 ovolo moulded mullioned window, two-light window below eaves right, ground floor three-light window left of entrance, two- and three-light to right of stack, plank door, pentice porch abutting stack, three steps up.
Interior not seen, said to contain good chamfered stud and panel screen, renewed base, original central elliptical headed doorway blocked, four-panel compartment ceiling with chamfered beams to right of cross passage, three pairs of tenoned jointed cruck trusses.
Smithy abutting to right. Early-mid C19. Rendered over rubble, double Roman tiled roof, decorative ridge tiles, brick stack right gable end. Segmental headed C19 windows flanking entrance, stable type door, lean-to addition right gable end. A rare example of a smithy still in use. Worked by J Horrobin Esq.
Listing NGR: ST0069542493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in September, (1980)
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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