Forge Cottage Forge Studios

MANNINGTREE HIGH STREET TM 1031 (south side)

9/152 No. 56 Forge Cottage and Forge Studios, (formerly known as Old Forge Cafe)

GV II

2 cottages with central carriageway. C18 with later alterations and additions. Part timber framed and plastered, part painted or plastered brick. Red plain tiled roofs, single bay lower range to left. Red brick chimney stack to rear range of right build. 2 storeys. A central bressumer runs through the right range and is supported by brickwork to left of the open carriageway. Dentilled eaves cornice to right range. 1:2 first floor and 1:1 ground floor small paned vertically sliding sash windows, segmental heads to left range. 4 panelled door approached by steps to right of carriageway. Attached to left is the part plastered, part weatherboarded gable end structure of the old forge with chimney stack to left, this is now part of the accommodation of Forge Studios. Important visually at an acute bend in the High Street.

Listing NGR: TM1084631863