Description

TQ 6053 PLAXTOL THE STREET
6/22 (north side)

1.8.52 The Forge Restaurant
(formerly listed as
Old Forge House)
GV
II

Farmhouse now restaurant. Late C16 farmhouse, with C19 wing to left, formerly the
village forge. Red and grey brick. Underbuilt ground floor, tile-hung first floor.
Plain tiled roof, with end stack to east and centre stack off-ridge to front. Two
storeys; 3 window front, modern diamond lattice casements. Boarded and ribbed door to
right with C18 flat hood on barckets. Lean-to extension to right. C19 wing to left,
projecting to south, Painted brick with plain tiled roof and catslide to west. Two
storeys; one window in south end, diamond lattice casements. Entrance and large open
bay to right on east return side with weatherboarding above bay. Interior. Two
original forges inside house adjacent to C19 wing. One stop-chamfered fireplace
bressumer with salthole. Also cobbled pavement in front of left-hand part of house.

Listing NGR: TQ6029653540

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26328570

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas