The Forge Restaurant

A 16th-century cottage, now a restaurant, situated on the south side of Cookham High Street. The building is predominantly timber-framed, with sections encased in painted brick, and has a gabled tile roof. It follows a T-plan layout, comprising two framed bays with a lower extension to the left. A jettied gable projects to the road. The building is partially two storeys high and partially one storey high. The road-facing front features a jettied gable on the right-hand side, with a three-light casement window on both the first and ground floors. A similar window, together with an entrance door, is positioned on the left. The middle section contains a single bay with three-light casement windows. The lower left-hand section has one similar window on the ground floor. All windows are 20th-century replacements with leaded lights. The interior retains a good-quality timber frame visible on the ground and first floors of the jettied two-framed-bay section. However, in one bay on the left, the timber frame has been replaced with fibreglass imitations.