Forge Cottage Including Attached Railings and Gate
FORGE COTTAGE INCLUDING ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE, 61, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306108
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage Including Attached Railings and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE INCLUDING ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE, 61, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306108
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jun-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage Including Attached Railings and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGE INCLUDING ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE, 61, HIGH STREET
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 INCLUDING ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE, 61, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86028 18644
Details
KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8618-8718 (north-west side)
10/172 No. 61 (Forge Cottage) 25.6.74 including attached railings and gate
GV II
House. Circa 1600, altered in C17/18 and C19, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing SE, with C19 external stacks at right end and to rear of middle bay. Early C20 wing to rear of left bay, the lower storey of painted brick, the upper storey weatherboarded. Truncated stack at end, enclosed by single-storey lean-to extension of breeze blocks, roofed with corrugated asbestos. C20 single-storey lean-to extensions to rear of other bays, partly painted brick, partly shingled, both roofed with felt. 2 storeys. Two 3-light casements on each floor, with rectangular leading. The lower left window is a complete C18/early C19 original, with moulded mullions and central wrought iron casement; the others retain the C18/early C19 casement, but are otherwise rebuilt in C20. C18/19 plain boarded door. Asymmetrical elevation. Early C19 railings and gate of wrought and cast iron, forming boundary with street and returning to house at both ends. 6 cast iron stanchions with urn terminals; plain spikes on railings; mounted on rendered dwarf wall; central gate with saltire bracing at bottom. Chamfered longitudinal beams, joggled between bays. Plain joists of vertical section, some replaced. Hardwood floorboards in left bay. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in front wallplate. Unjowled posts. Quarter-turn stair to right of front door. Walls raised approx. one metre in C17/18, internal tiebeams severed for doors but bareface-dovetailed to heavy door frames. C20 grates. One C18/early C19 battened door to rear of ground floor, and 2 in upper storey.
Listing NGR: TL8602818644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116485
- 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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