The Forge
THE FORGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349570
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349570
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORGE, 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:
- THE FORGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Eardisley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 31088 49530
Details
EARDISLEY CP HIGH STREET (west side) SO 3049 - 3149 7/69 The Forge 16.10.67 GV II House and former smithy. C14, altered probably C17, mid-C19 and mid-C20. Timber-framed with painted brick infill and replacement walling, stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses and some machine tiles, half-hipped at south end and with brick ridge stack. Cruck hall house of three framed bays aligned north/south with inserted chimney at junction of northern and central bays. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: cruck truss exposed at south end. Two and three panels from sill to wall-plate. East front elevation: there is a 2-light C19 casement with a cambered brick head and a small rectangular window on the ground floor. Above there is a raking-top dormer and a gabled dormer, both with 2-light casements. Main entrance in north bay has a gabled canopy on shaped brackets and a half-glazed C19 door. A large single-storey C20 wing adjoins the southern end of the front elevation and there is also a large C20 rear wing. Interior: cruck truss between central and north bay recorded to have a chamfered arch-braced collar. One other cruck truss survives. (RCHM, III, p 54, item 14; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).
Listing NGR: SO3108849530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 150624
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 54
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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