Forge Cottage

Forge Cottage is a house, formerly with a shop, dating from the early to mid 16th century. It underwent alterations in the early 17th century when a stack was inserted and the roof was replaced, with further changes made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, with some panelled pargetting, and has a thatched roof. It has a four-bay, three-cell cross-entry plan, with a smoke hood between the hall and parlour that has been replaced by a stack.

The cottage is two storeys high. On the ground floor, the cross entry to the right of centre is blocked, with a Phoenix Insurance marker above it. To the right, there is a service bay with a 24-pane architraved part-opening former shop window, and a second entrance to the right that is also blocked. The hall has a part-opening glazing bar cross casement, while the parlour features a cross casement, all with hoodboards. The first floor has four 2-light glazing bar casements with leaded panes on the left side.

A ridge stack has been inserted towards the left end, which is half hipped and features a small lean-to outshut. The right end has an added external stack and a 20th-century lean-to entrance porch. At the rear, there is a pantiled brick oven lean-to behind the stack, with 2-light casements.

Inside, there are two blocked service doorways with chamfered surrounds, one featuring a four-centred arched head. The hall has mortices for arched braces to the original cross axial binding beam. On the first floor, the service end wall has straight arched bracing, with posts of rebated section and four-centred arched braces leading to a cambered tie beam that has a rebated soffit in the hall chamber's open truss, along with a large window opening in the solar end wall.