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Parle's Forge — Churchtown

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Parle's Forge — Churchtown
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Detached four-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house with dormer attic, extant 1840, on a rectangular plan off-centred on single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting porch. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Refenestrated, ----. Chicken wire-covered pitched and hipped or hipped gabled oat thatch roof, pressed iron ridge above exposed steel stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having stepped capping, and blind stretchers to eaves having blind scallops. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed off-central door opening into house. Square-headed window openings with concrete or rendered sills, and concealed dressings including timber lintels framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set back from line of road on a corner site with limewashed cylindrical piers to perimeter having shallow conical capping supporting flat iron gate.

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