Forge Cottage

Forge Cottage is a cottage that dates back to the 15th century, with remodeling in the early 17th century and later alterations. It features a timber frame with colour-washed brick and wattle and daub infill, along with arch bracing that is original to the building but reset in its current position. The sides are clad in tile-hung material, and the roof is hipped with plain old tiles and has a gambrel shape on the right. There is a brick ridge stack and a 19th-century brick stack at the right end. Originally an open-hall dwelling from the 15th century, it was remodeled into a two-unit plan in the early 17th century.

The cottage has two storeys and includes a cellar, with a two-window range. There is a mid-20th-century entry to the cellar, a mid-20th-century hipped brick porch, mid-20th-century two-light windows, and a gabled half dormer. A mid-20th-century brick outshut is located at the rear. Inside, the cottage features a 15th-century smoke-blackened common-rafter roof with two bays, jowled storey posts, and deep arch bracing on the right side of the 15th-century truss, which has a truncated half-bay to its right. The ground floor includes joists for the ceiling of a small former service room on the left and a larger room on the right, which has a chamfered beam, an ogee-stopped chamfered wall beam on the left, and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressummer and stone jambs. There is a late 18th or early 19th-century winder staircase located at the rear of the stack. The cellar features dressed stone walls and a late 18th-century brick barrel-vaulted roof.