The Forge House
THE FORGE HOUSE, GREEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328468
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge House
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE HOUSE, GREEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328468
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORGE HOUSE, GREEN 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:
- THE FORGE HOUSE, GREEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Canfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL5737419011
Details
TL 51 NE
2/11
GREAT CANFIELD
GREEN STREET
THE FORGE HOUSE
II
House, late C16, extended in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, NW wall weatherboarded,
remainder plastered, upper pitches of gambrel roof thatched, lower pitches
tiled. 3 bays with axial chimney stack in NE end of middle bay, C19
bread oven, external chimney and bakehouse at NE end, C20 link unit at SW end
connecting with C20 extension framed with re-used timber. SE elevation:
single-storey with attics, gambrel roof half-hipped at both ends, but SW
end masked by extension. Two C20 casements and one C17 wrought iron
casement on ground floor, gabled dormer with C17 wrought iron casement on
ground floor, gabled dormer with C17 wrought iron casement in middle bay.
Some framing exposed internally. Jowled storey posts, curved tension bracing
trenched outside studs. The roof was originally of single pitch, altered to
gambrel in C18. Altogether there are 7 wrought iron windows, some with early
leaded glass, C17 and C18.
Listing NGR: TL5737419011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352678
- 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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