Forge Cottage

Forge Cottage is an 18th-century house, possibly with an earlier core, located on Burnt House Lane in Battisford. The building is one storey high with attics and features a timber-framed and plastered structure. It has a thatched roof, which includes an axial chimney made of red brick dating from the 17th or 18th century, as well as a later chimney from the late 18th or early 19th century. There is a thatched gabled dormer with a 19th-century casement window, while most of the windows are mid-20th-century casements. The entrance features a 19th-century four-panelled door. Inside, the left-hand (west) cell reveals exposed 18th-century framing, although the framing in the other three cells is concealed; these may date back to the 17th century. The cottage was likely built as a blacksmith's house, with the nearby property known as Farthings to the west serving as the forge.