Forge Cottage And Adjoining Wash House And Garden Wall

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SW ST MARTIN'S ROAD 646-1/3/595 (South side) Forge Cottage and adjoining wash house and garden wall

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Blacksmith's forge and attached wash house and garden wall, now house and adjoining workshops. c1800, with additions mid and late C19, and c1930. Red brick and coursed rubble, with plain tile roofs and 2 brick ridge stacks. Cogged eaves. Windows are mainly renewed glazing bar casements, those to ground floor segment-headed. 2 storeys; 5 bays. Continuous range with house to west and forge with lean-to addition to right. Main south front has a renewed door with fanlight, and above a semicircular window. To left, 2 windows, and to right, one. Above, 3 windows. All these windows have 3 lights. Forge, to right, has a segment-arched board door, then a 2-light window. At the rear, 2 wooden double doors under a common lintel, and a segment-headed hatch. Wash house to south-east, coursed rubble, single cell, has a door in the north gable. Adjoining wall, coursed rubble with stone coping, runs south along the street approx 12m. INTERIOR: house retains original winder stair with square newel and stick balusters, 4 board doors and 2 hob grates. Gypsum plaster floors and ceilings. Forge has original chamfered span beams and 2 complete brick forges and chimneys, one with brick hood.

Listing NGR: SK5200842021