Description

GREAT GADDESDEN GADDESDEN ROW TL 01 SE (South side) 4/98 The Old Forge -

GV II

House and forge, now all one house. Early C17 house, brick front early C18, catslide rear extension and brick forge extending to N mid C18. Timber frame with brick infill exposed externally only at rear, red brick, steep old red tile roofs, forge hipped at N end. A 2-storeys and attic, 2-cells, lobby entry plan house, facing E, with gabled rear stair tower, catslide rear outshut, gabled front porch, and single-storey brick forge attached on N with entrance in N end facing road. E front has 3 windows to upper floor and central battened door in porch. Attics lit by gable end windows. 3-light casement windows, renewed. Timber frame exposed inside, with narrow central chimney and entrance bay flanked by a single large bay on each side. S room more important with axial ovolo-moulded ceiling beam c.1620 and exposed chamfered joists. N room similar but with simple chamfer to axial beam. Ovolo-moulded fireplace lintel to each room and fireplaces originally on floor above, but chimney stack removed as unsafe and replaced by new staircase. Bathroom in former rear stair tower. Swept-jowled posts and straight braces to wallplate. Wide-spaced studs, framing for blocked windows in rear wall, clasped-purlin roof on collar-and-queen-strut trusses with straight wind-braces. Original attic floor on chamfered beams and square sawn joists, and full-height framed partition enclosing the chimney bay. Corner cupboard built in NE corner of ground floor N room with shaped shelves and hermicycle head in upper part with double doors and panelled door to lower part. Brought from 3, St. Agnell's Cottages, near Hemel Hempstead.

Listing NGR: TL0611511986

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)