The Old Forge
THE OLD FORGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333314
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD FORGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333314
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD FORGE
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 OLD FORGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Widworthy
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 21293 99920
Details
SY 29 NW WIDWORTHY WILMINGTON
4/154 The Old Forge - 16.7.87 II - House, formerly 2 cottages. C17 and C18, modernised circa 1970. Plastered local stone and flint rubble, maybe with some cob; the plaster is lightly incised as ashlar; stone rubble stacks with plastered brick chimneyshafts; thatch roof. Plan: L-plan building. The main block faces north. It has a 2-room plan with central through-passage and gable-end stacks. A secondary, probably early C18, 1- room plan extension projects forward at right angles in front of the left (east) room and overlaps the end a little; it is unheated. It seems that sometime, probably in the C19, it was divided into 2 cottages with a partition dividing the original partition into 2 narrow passages. In the C20 the left (east) room was enlarged by knocking out the original passage partition that side. At the same time the cottages were reunited. 2 storeys. Exterior: the main front has a not quite symmetrical 2-window front of C20 casements without glazing bars, some of them aluminium framed. The roughly central front doorway is a circa 1960 brick 2-centred arch containing a contemporary plank door. The roof is gable-ended and the front block roof is hipped. At the back there are a couple of C19 casements with round-headed lights and glazing bars. Interior: is mostly the result of C20 modernisations and little early carpentry detail is exposed. The left room of the main block has a chamfered and scroll- stopped crossbeam and the front block has a chamfered axial beam with runout stops. The fireplaces are blocked with C20 grates. The roof was not inspected and there is no sign of trusses on the first floor.
Listing NGR: SY2129399920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88827
- 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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