The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- inner-fireplace-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 22 SW LANGLEY LONDON ROAD (East side) Langley
5/73 The Forge
II
House. Circa 1500 former open hall house, floor inserted c.1600 and N bay heightened, stack rebuilt in brick in C18. Timber frame roughcast with steep old red tile roofs. A 1½-storeys house facing W with N part higher and with a large chimney bridging the change of height. The middle is the hall originally open to the roof with cross-passage across its N end, S bay presumably a parlour at the 'upper' end of the hall was originally unheated, and the service rooms will have been on the site of the N bay either heightened or rebuilt in C16 or early C17 as a new parlour end. The inserted floor in the hall was probably accompanied by a timber-framed fire-hood which was replaced by a brick chimney with stair to rear (E) in C18. W front has plank door under gabled tiled hood into lower part of house by chimney. 3-lights flush casement windows with rectangular leaded lights. 3 to ground floor and 3 gabled dormers at eaves. Interior exposed frame, close-spaced studs, axial floor beams, jowled posts, heavy straight tension braces recessed at back of studs. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2157922268
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