Old Forge Cottage

TM 06 NW GT ASHFIELD LONG THURLOW

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House, early C15 with alterations of C16 and C17. An open hall house with complex alterations resulting in a plan of 4 cells by early/mid C16. One storey and attics. Timber-framed and plastered. Thatched roof, hipped at right hand end. An axial chimney, the shaft rebuilt in C19 red brick. C19 small-pane casements. A C19 boarded door at cross-entry position with C19 porch on slender posts and with trelliswork sides. Two C19 slated raking dormers with casements. A second C19 entrance door to right of similar form. Interior: A 2-bay open hall at the centre of the house. The open truss has an uncambered tiebeam with chamfered archbraces and shafts beneath. Widely- spaced studding with long arch windbraces and blocked diamond-mullioned windows at front and rear. Altered coupled-rafter roof. A large mid/late C16 chimney in the upper bay and an inserted 1st floor which leaves the archbraces of the medieval open truss rising through it. To right of the chimney is a 2- cell range probably of early/mid C16 with good framing: studding with prominent arch windbraces. The right hand cell has high quality unchamfered 1st floor joists; but the 1st floor in the left hand cell is clamped with chamfered joists, and may be a later C16 insertion. The service cell to left of the hall was rebuilt in early C17.

Listing NGR: TM0067468085