Forge Cottage

SJ 77 NE MOBBERLEY C.P. TOWN LANE

6/74 Forge Cottage.

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House (formerly village forge and blacksmith's house), 1775. Red Flemish bond and English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. 2 storeys. Road frontage of Flemish bond with vitrified headers. Darker plum-coloured brick used for corners and forming vertical patterns of alternating headers and stretchers. Central slightly projecting bay with rubbed brick basket arch to carriage doorway with keystone and stone skewbacks. Archway now bricked in and containing leaded 2-light wooden casement window. Upper 2-light casement with splayed head of rubbed brick and keystone. 2 ground floor windows'to left: 3-light casement with splayed head and keystone at far left. To the right of it a splayed-headed opening with keystone, originally extending lower to form a doorway but now a 2-light casement window. Right hand ground floor windows now bricked up. First floor windows: 3-light casement to left with blind window adjacent containing datestone inscribed ID 1775. 3-light casement to right. All first floor windows have splayed heads and keystones. Gable ends of English garden wall bond. 2 ridge chimney-stacks.

Listing NGR: SJ7860679614