7 Forge Row

Nos.6&7 Forge Row

Pair of single storey cottages with dormers.

No. 7 to left has roughcast facade of three bays; central door and window each side, all C20. The small window openings are probably approximately the original size. Steep roof of artificial slate, the eaves broken by two C20 dormer windows with catslide roofs. Brick gable chimney to left. C20 rear lean-to extension.

No. 6 to right has painted rendered facade of similar length to No. 8. Facade has been remodelled in C20, with door to left and wide window to right. Concrete tiled roof, the eaves broken by two C20 dormers with low-pitch sloping roofs. Rendered gable chimney to right. Large C20 flat-roofed rear extension.

Original plan-form to both cottages is difficult to reconstruct, but the attics were habitable (note chimney stairs). The length of both cottages suggests that the ground floor had a secondary room each side of the party wall, which was unheated..

Interior of No. 6 has main room to ground floor with rough stop-chamfered beams. Altered fireplace with altered fireplace stair to left. Roof has single oak truss with no collar and massive paired purlins.

Interior of No. 7 not seen, but said to be modernised.