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Forge Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Carhampton, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.173 / 51°10'22"N

Longitude: -3.4219 / 3°25'18"W

OS Eastings: 300695

OS Northings: 142493

OS Grid: ST006424

Mapcode National: GBR LL.6BYJ

Mapcode Global: VH6GM.MSV4

Plus Code: 9C3R5HFH+67

Entry Name: Forge Cottage

Listing Date: 22 May 1969

Last Amended: 6 January 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1295814

English Heritage Legacy ID: 265299

ID on this website: 101295814

Location: Carhampton, Somerset, TA24

County: Somerset

District: Somerset West and Taunton

Civil Parish: Carhampton

Built-Up Area: Carhampton

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description


ST0042
15/17

CARHAMPTON CP
CARHAMPTON VILLAGE
Forge Cottage

(Formerly listed as Forge Cottage and gate adjoining to east. Previously listed as Laurel Cottage)

22.5.69

II

Cottage. C15, altered C16, enlarged C18. Rendered over rubble, cob in rear wing, thatched roof, large external stack left gable end, large lateral stack to right of entrance with circular chimney.

T-plan: probably open hall house with low ground floor partitions, now three-cell and cross passage with smithy adjoining to west and wing at rear. One and a half storeys, mainly C18-early C19 leaded iron casements, some with quadrant stays, dormer windows rising from eaves flanking stack, one to right C17 ovolo moulded mullioned window, two-light window below eaves right, ground floor three-light window left of entrance, two- and three-light to right of stack, plank door, pentice porch abutting stack, three steps up.

Interior not seen, said to contain good chamfered stud and panel screen, renewed base, original central elliptical headed doorway blocked, four-panel compartment ceiling with chamfered beams to right of cross passage, three pairs of tenoned jointed cruck trusses.

Smithy abutting to right. Early-mid C19. Rendered over rubble, double Roman tiled roof, decorative ridge tiles, brick stack right gable end. Segmental headed C19 windows flanking entrance, stable type door, lean-to addition right gable end. A rare example of a smithy still in use. Worked by J Horrobin Esq.

Listing NGR: ST0069542493

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