The Forge

The Forge is a small house built in 1848 for the National Co-operative Land Company by F. O'Connor, with later alterations. It features Flemish bond brickwork on a stone plinth and a slate roof. The building is three bays wide and extends 16 rooms deep, with a single-storey rear extension. The center bay projects slightly and has a gable above it, with a fully glazed late 20th-century door accessed by two stone steps and a flat rubbed brick arch. There are narrow single-light casements on each side of the door and two-light casements in the wings, all with flat rubbed brick arches above, and late 20th-century windows. A plain string course runs along the base of the gable, with a stone quatrefoil ventilator above it, and there are slightly projecting brick courses at the verge and eaves of the wings. The front has a plain verge rafter supported by shaped corbels. Brick chimneys are located on the end gables and at the center of the rear. The property originally included a 4-acre plot. It is listed mainly for its historical and sociological significance and forms a group with other Chartist cottages.