Survey Data
Reg No
22805002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Forge/smithy
In Use As
House
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
239204, 106064
Date Recorded
22/07/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Attached three-bay single-storey rubble stone forge, c.1820, possibly originally detached. Reroofed, c.1945. Extensively renovated, c.1995, to accommodate residential use. Pitched roof with replacement artificial slate, c.1945, clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with dressed granite quoins to corners. Shallow segmental-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and cut-stone voussoirs. Replacement timber casement windows, c.1995. Horse shoe-profiled door opening with cut-stone voussoirs, and replacement timber boarded double doors, c.1995. Set back from line of road with tarmacadam verge to front.
Appraisal
An appealing, small-scale building that has been sympathetically converted to an alternative use without adversely affecting the character of the site. The building is of particular importance for its original intended use as a forge, representing an early, small-scale industrial venture in the locality. The profile of the door opening indicates the nature of the business originally carried out within the building, and enhances the architectural value of the composition, while the cut-stone dressings are indicative of high quality stone masonry.