Nos 28, 29 and 30 Forge Lane Cottages

Nos 28, 29, and 30 Forge Lane Cottages are a U-plan block of estate cottages dating from 1828. The cottages are constructed in painted roughcast with a flat-eaved slate roof that is hipped at the angles and gabled at the rear. Red brick chimneys are located on the side range ridges and at the rear gable ends. The buildings are two storeys high and feature pointed windows. The front facade has four bays, with original timber Y-tracery and leaded glazing remaining only in the right cottage, which also has iron opening casements. Each cottage has two windows on the first floor, and there is a lozenge plaque marked 1828 between the cottages. The ground floor features one window on the outer sides and a deep shared central recessed porch.

This recessed porch has a moulded timber cornice above an unusual triple arcade of cast-iron reeded piers with paterae and elliptical arches that include keystones. The piers are T-section moulded at the front. Inside, the right return of No 28 has an original plank door in a moulded frame. The centre cottage has a half-round window, which was formerly a circular window shared with No 29; the other half has been removed as No 29 has been modernised and now features a 20th-century window and door, along with a 20th-century window in the left return.

The north side of the block has a blank pointed opening at the right end bay of the front range, leading to a much-altered cottage behind that has pointed pairs of windows on the first floor, flanking a large 20th-century porch. There is a pointed window on the ground floor to the left of the porch and large 20th-century windows to the right. The south side has all 20th-century glazing, with one bay at the left end of the front range, followed by a double-fronted house to the right that has a 20th-century glazed door to No 30, set within a gabled trellis porch with bargeboards, and a one-window range on each side. The building has not been inspected.