Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
solitary-wattle-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1984
Type
Cottage
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 51 SW MATCHING MATCHING GREEN Forge Cottage 3/71

GV II

Cottage, C17, altered and extended in C19 and C20. Timber framed with C20 facade of yellow stock bricks. Flemish bond, plastered elsewhere, roof thatched. 3 bays aligned NE-SW, with original chimney stack in middle bay, forming a lobby-entrance. C19 brick and thatch extension to rear of SW bay, forming an L-plan, with lean-to cellar in rear angle, C19. External chimney stacks at NW and NE, C19/20. Single storey with attics. Plain boarded door in thatched gabled porch, 2 C20 casement windows, 2 gabled dormers with C20 casement windows. Original large hearth of 23cm. red brickwork facing SE, reduced for coal fire, forming cupboards to each side, and later blocked. Inserted hearth in NE upper room. C19 cast-iron grate in C20 chimney in NE ground floor room. Chamfered beams, with lamb's tongue stops over NE ground floor room, plastered to soffits of joists. Roof ceiled, but probably of clasped purlin construction.

Listing NGR: TL5355511279

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