Forge Cottage

Forge Cottage is a house that was formerly a village forge and blacksmith's house, built in 1775. It features red brick in Flemish bond and English garden wall bond, topped with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high, with a road-facing facade in Flemish bond that includes vitrified headers. Darker plum-coloured brick is used for the corners and to create vertical patterns of alternating headers and stretchers.

The central bay slightly projects and has a rubbed brick basket arch that originally led to a carriage doorway, complete with a keystone and stone skewbacks. This archway is now bricked in and contains a leaded two-light wooden casement window. Above it, there is a two-light casement window with a splayed head made of rubbed brick and a keystone.

On the ground floor to the left, there are two windows: a three-light casement with a splayed head and keystone at the far left, and to the right of it, a splayed-headed opening with a keystone that was originally a doorway but is now a two-light casement window. The right-hand ground floor windows have been bricked up.

On the first floor, there is a three-light casement window to the left, with a blind window next to it that contains a datestone inscribed "ID 1775." There is another three-light casement window to the right. All first-floor windows have splayed heads and keystones. The gable ends are constructed in English garden wall bond, and there are two ridge chimney-stacks.