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The Old Forge — Forge Road

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The Old Forge — Forge Road
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Detached single-bay single-storey L-plan forge, built 1855. The façade is in squared roughly dressed granite with edge pilasters, kneelers, parapets and finials also in granite. To the front gable is a horseshoe shaped doorway with dressed voussoirs and moulding with an ‘arrow loop’ opening above. The gable is topped with a ball and cone finial, with octagonal granite chimneystacks to remaining gables. Flat-headed windows with multiple-pane frames to roadside elevation with doorway with plain timber door to south face of the rear projection which is on the west side.

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