Forge Cottages

Forge Cottages is a house, now a row of houses, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with later alterations. The ground floor is made of painted brick, while the first floor is tile-hung, featuring a rendered gable facing the road. The building has a plain tile roof and is south-facing, built at right angles to the road. It has two storeys and an attic, with a half-hipped roof and a gablet on the right side. There is a later brick chimney stack towards the left end and a broad red brick stack along the ridge to the right of the center. The roof includes two half-hipped dormers with two-light casements. The windows are arranged irregularly, with three three-light casements: one to the left of the left stack, one towards the center, and one at the right end. A ribbed door is located between the stacks, and there is a boarded door to the right end leading to Forge Cottage. At the rear of the central stack, there is a two-storey former stair turret that is tile-hung on the first floor and has a hipped plain-tile roof. To the left, there is a two-storey parallel rear range, with a rear lean-to to the right. A single-storey addition is attached to the right gable end, with its rear wall flush with the lean-to; this addition is made of painted brick, has a weatherboarded gable, and a half-hipped plain-tile roof facing the road. There is another single-storey painted brick addition towards the rear of the right gable end of the first addition, which is gabled to the road. The interior has only been partly inspected, revealing exposed framing, a brick fireplace with a wooden bressumer, and a staggered butt purlin roof without queen struts in Forge Cottage.