The Old Forge

The Old Forge is a house that was formerly a forge, built in the Tudor style and designed in a T-plan layout. It is constructed from squared stone with tooled dressings and features stone tiled roofs. The building is adorned with tall, thin red brick octagonal chimney shafts set on stone bases. The T-plan includes a square ridge stack on the north front range, which is missing three of its four shafts, and another stack on the rear of the east crosswing that has a pair of shafts.

The north front showcases a cross-range gable that projects to the left, while the lower three-bay main range is to the right and includes a projecting gabled porch. Both the porch and the cross-range gable feature pierced ogee cusped bargeboards, and the porch retains a timber finial. The main range has damaged toothed fretwork edging along the eaves. The windows are fitted with diamond-paned glazing and consist of timber mullioned or mullion-and-transom cross-windows, all set in deep splayed recesses. The main range has small casement pairs on the first floor, each positioned over a long sill, with a cross-window to the left and a three-light window to the right, both topped with broad hoodmoulds and sills.

The porch, made of tooled stone, displays a shield dated 1846 in the gable, along with a string course above a four-centred arched chamfered doorway that features cut stone voussoirs. Behind the doorway is a short stone vault leading to a similar four-centred doorway with matching voussoirs, and a studded plank door secured with long wrought iron hinges. The front of the building steps back to the far right, with the west end having overhanging verges and hoodmoulded windows on each floor.

The cross-range includes a first-floor cross-window with a deep hoodmould and stone sill, while the ground floor features a broad Tudor-arched former doorway with a flat hoodmould that returns at the ends. This arch has been infilled with a three-light matching window that includes a transom and a stone sill. The east side elevation of the cross range has a centrally advanced gable with similar detailing. Stepping down to the left is the stone-tiled forge, which has a stone chimney on the south end. To the right is a four-centred arched doorway with split-boarded doors, and to the left are inserted garage doors. The building has not been inspected.