The Old Forge

EARDISLEY CP

KINGTON ROAD (west side)

SO 3049 - 3149 7/75 16.10.67

The Old Forge

II

Former smithy and house, now house. Probably late C16, altered mid-C19 and mid-C20. Timber-framed with painted brick infill on rubble base, partly roughcast and weatherboarded with machine-tiled roof and brick ridge stack. Four framed bays aligned north/south. The two southernmost bays are larger and have an external rubble chimney with a brick stack on the east side. There is a chimney at the junction with the two narrower north bays. Two storeys. Framing: four panels from sill to wall-plate. First floor is jettied to the south-west on a moulded bressummer. The jetty at the south end has been under- built but the gable is still also jettied. No trusses exposed. East front elevation: on the ground floor there is a 3-light casement and two single- light casements with plank weatherings. On the first floor are four 2-light casements and a square light. Main entrance to right of centre has a gabled canopy on metal brackets and a half-glazed C20 door with a ,moulded architrave. At the right end is a. double doorway. (RCHM, III, p 53, item 6).

Listing NGR: SO3104049662