The Old Forge
The Old Forge, The Green
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393654
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-2010
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Forge, The Green
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393654
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-2010
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Forge, The Green
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 Green
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Rugby (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leamington Hastings
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 45192 65860
Reasons for Designation
The Old Forge at Broadwell, an early-C19 village forge, is designated at Grade II, for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as a good survival of a forge dating from before 1840
* Architectural interest: a building which clearly reflects its use as a forge in its elevations and internal fittings
* Intactness: the building is largely unaltered since its completion, and retains its two hearths and chimneys as well as external timber work
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 April 2021 to reformat the text to current standards
1724/0/10052
LEAMINGTON HASTINGS
Broadwell
THE GREEN (north side)
The Old Forge
04-FEB-10
II
A village blacksmith's or farrier's shop, dating from the early C19.
MATERIALS: the building is constructed from red brick laid in stretcher bond, under a plain clay tile roof, with brick stacks.
PLAN: the building, a simple rectangle on plan, is orientated east-west, and divided into two rooms: a forge to the west and probable shoeing room to the east.
EXTERIOR: the forge is a single storey range, with a pitched roof. The main elevation, facing the road, is of three bays, the two to the left housing the forge; there is a rectangular window opening to each bay, each under a timber lintel, with an original timber external shutter. There is a ridge stack to either end of this room, that to the west end having lost its top two courses of brickwork; that to the east has a projecting course close to the top. To the right is a double-door opening, under a wide timber lintel; the doors have been removed though the hinges remain in situ. The gable ends are blind.
INTERIOR: the interior retains two brick hearths with arched openings below the furnaces, and brick-built smoke hoods, leading into internal stacks. One has a later-C19 floor-standing bellows linked to the furnace by fixed pipework.
HISTORY: Broadwell is a small hamlet in the parish of Leamington Hastings. Whilst it had its own manor until the C16, the settlement seems to have been small, essentially a cluster of houses centred on the wide village green. The hamlet is now characterised by a number of later C18 and C19 houses, with some post-war housing. The old forge building is prominently situated on the green, with a small apron of land in front of it, which would have provided space for the tethering of horses waiting to be shod, and the display of wrought goods; it is adjacent to a row of cottages of similar date (unlisted). The building dates from the early part of the C19, and this is evident stylistically in the fabric. It was certainly in place by the time of the 1841 census, when John Fletcher and his son Frederick were the blacksmiths.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 507977
- 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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