Old Forge Cottage

Old Forge Cottage is a house dating from the early 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is an open hall house that has undergone complex changes, resulting in a plan of four cells by the early to mid-16th century. The cottage is one storey high with attics and features a timber-framed and plastered structure. It has a thatched roof that is hipped at the right-hand end and an axial chimney, with the shaft rebuilt in 19th-century red brick. The windows are 19th-century small-pane casements, and there is a 19th-century boarded door at the cross-entry position, accompanied by a 19th-century porch supported by slender posts and adorned with trelliswork sides. Additionally, there are two 19th-century slated raking dormers with casements and a second entrance door to the right, similar in style.

Inside, there is a two-bay open hall at the center of the house. The open truss features an uncambered tiebeam with chamfered archbraces and shafts beneath. The studding is widely spaced, with long arch windbraces and blocked diamond-mullioned windows at both the front and rear. The roof has been altered with coupled rafters. A large mid to late 16th-century chimney is located in the upper bay, and an inserted first floor allows the archbraces of the medieval open truss to rise through it. To the right of the chimney is a two-cell range, likely from the early to mid-16th century, showcasing good framing with studding and prominent arch windbraces. The right-hand cell contains high-quality unchamfered first-floor joists, while the left-hand cell has a first floor clamped with chamfered joists, suggesting it may be a later 16th-century addition. The service cell to the left of the hall was rebuilt in the early 17th century.