Forge and Attached Office Immediately East of NO.166 (Not Included)
FORGE AND ATTACHED OFFICE IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.166 (NOT INCLUDED), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392765
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Forge and Attached Office Immediately East of NO.166 (Not Included)
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE AND ATTACHED OFFICE IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.166 (NOT INCLUDED), HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392765
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Forge and Attached Office Immediately East of NO.166 (Not Included)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE AND ATTACHED OFFICE IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.166 (NOT INCLUDED), 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:
- FORGE AND ATTACHED OFFICE IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.166 (NOT INCLUDED), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newmarket
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 64090 63205
Details
NEWMARKET
TL6463 HIGH STREET 177/7/10027 (Northeast side) 30-OCT-06 Forge and attached office immediately east of No.166 (not included)
GV II Blacksmith's forge and attached office. Early/mid C19.
MATERIALS. Gault brick to front (facing No.166), the remainder painted or rendered red brick. Slate roof.
A single storey building set gable end onto High Street. A range of 9 large horizontal sliding sash windows, each sash of 3x6 panes, plus a matching fixed sash at the High Street end. The windows retain much original glass, including bull's eyes. Off-centre doorway with wide half-glazed entrance door in 2 leaves. Front corner of street gable end is cut away for c.1.5m. The gable end has a single window with plain C20 glazing above a stucco plinth. Tall, slightly tapering, qault brick stack in rear slope of roof. Office on left end has door and small-paned casements under segmental arches and is linked internally to the forge.
INTERIOR. Little altered, with a group of 4 free-standing hearths against the rear wall with arched recesses between and the superstructure above taking the flues to the stack. A small part of the workshop at the north end has been closed off with a boarded partition to form offices.
NOTE. A notable example of an intact C19 forge, the large size of which reflects the importance of blacksmiths to the equestrian industry in Newmarket.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 499777
- 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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