Description

PLYMTREE NORMANS GREEN
ST 00 SE
3/138 The Old Forge
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GV II

Cottage. Mid - late C17, enlarged in the late C19 - early C20, modernised with a
service extension circa 1980. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; cob stack
topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof.
Plan: L-plan cottage facing south-east. The main block contains a parlour to left
(south-west) with a rear lateral stack and entrance hall to right Behind the
entrance hall is a kitchen/living room with a gable-end stack. This kitchen/living
room is the historic core of the house. The front block was built in the late C19 -
early C20. The original house had a 2-room plan; the larger heated room remains as
the kitchen/living room but it seems that the unheated room was extended forward as
part of the late C19 - early C20 rebuild and converted to the entrance hall.
Cottage is 2 storeys with circa 1980 single storey service extension to rear which
now includes the present kitchen.
Exterior: irregular 2-window front of late C19 - early C20 casements with glazing
bars and flat eyebrows over the first floor windows. The front doorway is near the
right end; it contains a C20 door behind a contemporary thatch-roofed porch. The
roof is half-hipped each end. The rear block roof (the C17 section) is gable-ended
and unusually steeply pitched. One window in the rear block (first floor right on
the south-west side) has flat-faced mullions and may be original.
Interior: the C17 features are confined to the rear block. The room here has a
deeply chamfered crossbeam and a large plastered fireplace with a small chamfer to
the oak lintel. It includes a brick oven. The partition between the 2 original
rooms remains largely intact. It is a full height closed truss of large scantling
close-studded oak framing in which the sides of the posts are drilled with a series
of holes to accommodate individual lathes which provide a ladder backing for the cob
infil. The rear block has a single bay roof.

Listing NGR: ST0543903524

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26390330

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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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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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014