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Latitude: 52.2426 / 52°14'33"N
Longitude: 0.4019 / 0°24'6"E
OS Eastings: 564090
OS Northings: 263205
OS Grid: TL640632
Mapcode National: GBR N9Y.6G6
Mapcode Global: VHJGH.XWBQ
Plus Code: 9F426CV2+2Q
Entry Name: Forge and Attached Office Immediately East of NO.166 (Not Included)
Listing Date: 30 October 2006
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1392765
English Heritage Legacy ID: 499777
ID on this website: 101392765
Location: Newmarket, West Suffolk, CB8
County: Suffolk
District: West Suffolk
Civil Parish: Newmarket
Built-Up Area: Newmarket
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Newmarket St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Smithy
NEWMARKET
TL6463 HIGH STREET
177/7/10027 (Northeast side)
30-OCT-06 Forge and attached office immediately
east of No.166 (not included)
GV II
Blacksmith's forge and attached office. Early/mid C19.
MATERIALS. Gault brick to front (facing No.166), the remainder painted or rendered red brick. Slate roof.
A single storey building set gable end onto High Street. A range of 9 large horizontal sliding sash windows, each sash of 3x6 panes, plus a matching fixed sash at the High Street end. The windows retain much original glass, including bull's eyes. Off-centre doorway with wide half-glazed entrance door in 2 leaves. Front corner of street gable end is cut away for c.1.5m. The gable end has a single window with plain C20 glazing above a stucco plinth. Tall, slightly tapering, qault brick stack in rear slope of roof. Office on left end has door and small-paned casements under segmental arches and is linked internally to the forge.
INTERIOR. Little altered, with a group of 4 free-standing hearths against the rear wall with arched recesses between and the superstructure above taking the flues to the stack. A small part of the workshop at the north end has been closed off with a boarded partition to form offices.
NOTE. A notable example of an intact C19 forge, the large size of which reflects the importance of blacksmiths to the equestrian industry in Newmarket.
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