The Forge

THE FORGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328608
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
The Forge
Statutory Address:
THE FORGE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1328608
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
The Forge
Statutory Address 1:
THE FORGE

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE FORGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Manaccan
National Grid Reference:
SW 76330 25009

Details

SW 72 NE MANACCAN MANACCAN

2/99 The Forge -

GV II

House. Circa late C17, eaves heightened circa late C19 early C20 extende at rear C20. Painted cob with rubble footings, slate sills, wooden lintels. Scantle slate roof with brick chimneys over gable ends. Plan originally: 2 rooms with hall left with rear lateral fireplace and parlour right with large fireplace possibly inserted in the C19 for use as forge; C20 2-storey extension at right angles to rear middle. 2 storeys. Irregular 2-window east front. Doorway, right of middle with 4-panel door and old wooden gabled porch. C19 16-pane hornless sashes to ground floor window openings the right-hand one adjoining doorway and porch. Later 4-pane sashes in original small openings to first floor, the right-hand one slightly to right of porch ridge and the left-hand one farther left than ground floor window. Interior simple but little altered since the C19 except for removal of ground floor partitions. One of a group of C17-C19 buildings situated irregularly range around a village square, which is an unusual settlement pattern in Cornwall.

Listing NGR: SW7633025009

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Legacy System number:
65262
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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