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Forge House — Lower Street

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Forge House — Lower Street
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Attached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1900. Gable-fronted entrance porch to east, sun room to south, lean-to to rear (west). Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick flat-capped chimneystacks to gables, cast-iron gutters; scalloped terracotta tiles to porch, painted ridge, finial, corrugated-iron and felt roof to lean-to. Painted roughcast rendered walling, painted smooth rendered plinth; painted smooth rendered ruled-and-lined rendered walling to porch and sun room. Square-headed window openings, painted smooth rendered reveals and soffits, painted stone sills; painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows to ground floor, uPVC casements to first floor and rear elevations, curved shoulders to central first floor window, painted timber casement windows to sun room, loop windows to side elevation of porch. Square-headed entrance door opening, hardwood half-glazed panelled door, concrete threshold steps, wrought-iron boot scraper. Street fronted, garden to south and rear (west); former forge to north, pitched slate roof, rubble stone and brick walling, square-headed window and door openings, unpainted timber vertically-sheeted door, base of turntable to front (west).

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