Forge Cottages

Forge Cottages is a row of houses dating from the 18th century, with a 16th-century core and later 20th-century alterations. The cottages are timber framed, featuring painted brick on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first floor, topped with a plain tile roof. They stand two storeys high with a garret on a painted brick plinth and have a boxed wooden eaves cornice. The roof is half-hipped to the left, and there are brick stacks: one ridge stack to the left of centre and another multiple brick ridge stack at the right gable end. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of five 2-light casements, two of which are leaded, and one 3-light leaded casement on the ground floor. A pair of ribbed doors with a single segmental head is located under the left stack. The interior has only been partly inspected but features gunstock-jowled posts on the first floor, 18th-century partitions, chamfered beams and joists, and an 18th-century clasped purlin roof with reducing principal rafters. The cottages are included for their group value.