Description

EARDISLEY CP HIGH STREET (west side) SO 3049 - 3149 7/69 The Forge 16.10.67 GV II House and former smithy. C14, altered probably C17, mid-C19 and mid-C20. Timber-framed with painted brick infill and replacement walling, stone-tiled roof laid in diminishing courses and some machine tiles, half-hipped at south end and with brick ridge stack. Cruck hall house of three framed bays aligned north/south with inserted chimney at junction of northern and central bays. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: cruck truss exposed at south end. Two and three panels from sill to wall-plate. East front elevation: there is a 2-light C19 casement with a cambered brick head and a small rectangular window on the ground floor. Above there is a raking-top dormer and a gabled dormer, both with 2-light casements. Main entrance in north bay has a gabled canopy on shaped brackets and a half-glazed C19 door. A large single-storey C20 wing adjoins the southern end of the front elevation and there is also a large C20 rear wing. Interior: cruck truss between central and north bay recorded to have a chamfered arch-braced collar. One other cruck truss survives. (RCHM, III, p 54, item 14; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).

Listing NGR: SO3108849530

External Links

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