The Old Forge

The Old Forge is a house located in Sarratt, dating from the early 17th century. It was refronted and raised in the mid to late 18th century and extended in the early 20th century. The building has a timber frame core, with a red brick front and nogging, along with an extension that features sham timber framing. It has a tiled roof and consists of two bays and two storeys.

On the ground floor, there are two three-light casement windows and a blocked entrance with cambered heads. The first floor also has two three-light casement windows. The eaves are dentilled brick, and the right gable end displays some exposed framing along with a large 17th-century external stack, which has an English bond base and a cap that was rebuilt in the 19th century. There are flanking lean-tos, with the one at the rear being hipped and likely containing an oven. The rear features exposed framing and tile hanging on the first floor, while the left gable end also shows exposed framing.

To the left, there is a one-storey early 20th-century addition. At the rear left, there is a two-storey early 20th-century wing with casement windows, first-floor sham framing, an extruded rear stack, and a hipped roof. The entrance to this wing is located in the right return.

Inside, the house features a chamfered binding beam, a stop-chamfered lintel above the inglenook, and jowled posts supporting a clasped purlin roof. The ground floor of the early 20th-century rear wing has a Neo-Tudor plaster ceiling.