The Forge House
THE FORGE HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382074
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge House
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382074
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Oct-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORGE HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Claverdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 20007 64736
Details
CLAVERDON
SP26SW CHURCH ROAD
1457-1/6/26 (South side)
02/08/72 The Forge House
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH ROAD, Claverdon
The Old Smithy Cottage)
GV II
House. Late C16/early C17 with later additions and alterations
including extensions to right, left and to rear 1980s. Small,
square panels of timber-framing with painted plaster infill
and plain-tile roof with pinkish-brown brick stacks. 3-unit,
lobby-entrance plan.
EXTERIOR: single-storey with attics, 3-window range;
single-storey, single bay extensions to each end. Brick
plinth. Ground floor: steps to off-centre left entrance, plank
door in gabled porch. To right extension a further plank door.
Casement windows throughout with sills, that to left under
cambered arch. Steeply-pitched gabled roof with 3 gabled
dormers fitted with casements under cambered arches and with
sills. Large rear stack.
INTERIOR: chamfered beam to left room on huge corbel at right
end; exposed rafters to lobby; first floor has extensive
evidence of timber-framing throughout.
Forms a group with The Old Smithy (qv).
Listing NGR: SP2000764736
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482439
- 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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