Description

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TQ 5446
19/668

LEIGH
The Green
Forge House

(Formerly listed as Forge House, High Street (North Side), previously listed as Forge Cottage)

GV
II
Mid-late C19. Small, L-shaped, two storey two bay cottage. Projecting gable left wing. Tiled roof, brick chimneys. Left gable end and first floor, half-timbered with plaster filling, overhanging on curved brackets. Moulded bargeboard, carved beam over upper window. Rest of first floor tile hung but for slightly projecting oriel, with gabled peak in inner right return, half timbered. Brick ground floor. Stone quoins and window dressings. Plank door under hipped tiled porch in angle. Ground floor left window a canted bay; right window narrow and segment headed.

South View, Nos 1 to 7 (consec) Forge Square, The Forge and Forge House form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5489646534

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562996

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings