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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Date:: 2004-10-05
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Official list entry

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

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, 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

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Legacy System number:: 265299
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'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.