Forge Cottage

Forge Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one house, likely originating from the 17th century and remodeled in the late 18th or early 19th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble, featuring alternating angle quoins and a stone slate roof. It has an L-plan layout, with a short single-storey gabled range, probably from the 19th century, extending at right angles to the rear on the right side.

The structure is two storeys tall. The former left cottage has 19th-century casement windows with wooden lintels on either side of a central plank door, which is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled porch. To the left of the doorway is another 20th-century casement window, also with a wooden lintel. The former right cottage features 19th-century casement windows on either side of a central infilled doorway, with the ground floor windows having wedged heads and keystones, while the first-floor windows, like those of the former left cottage below, have wooden lintels and are positioned directly under the eaves.

The building includes integral end stacks with red brick shafts, and a red brick ridge stack is located to the right of the center, showing a straight joint below. The left gable end has two infilled windows on each floor, while the right gable end has a blocked bread oven arch and the outline of the roof of a former low gabled outbuilding is visible.

Inside, the left ground-floor room features a large inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wooden lintel on the left side, and a chamfered spine beam with a broach stop. The ceiling beams and joists in the rooms to the right of the ridge stack are reused from elsewhere, with some late 20th-century insertions. The 20th-century additions to the rear on the left are not of special architectural interest.