Description

STOKENHAM CAREHOUSE CROSS
SX8042 Forge Cottage and Rest
14/194 Cottage

GV II

House, divided into 2 cottages. Probably medieval, divided into cottages
probably in C18 or C19 and with C20 alterations. Painted stone rubble slate
roof with gabled ends. Gable end lateral and axial stacks with rendered
brick shafts.
Plan: Long 4-room plan facing north with a cross passage between the left
(east) end room (which has an end stack) and the room to the left of centre
which has a rear lateral stack. The small (originally unheated) room to the
right of centre might have been the inner room of the original house or
possibly a cross-passage. The room at the right hand west end has a gable
end stack and projections on the front and back walls, one of which could
have been a stair turret. In the north front wall of the left (east) end
room there is a tall full-height window at first floor doorway.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 6-window north front, the right hand end
projects. Mostly C20 2-light plastic casements in small openings, one circa
late C19 2-light casement on the first floor to right. Very small ground
floor window to right of centre and 2 windows to its right with dripmoulds.
To left of centre tall chamfered stone 2-centred arch doorway (what appear
to be broach stops have been cut off) with C19 glazed and flush panel door.
To left of doorway a tall blocked window at first floor doorway with
segmented stone arch. At the left hand east gable end a large projecting
stack with set offs.
South elevation: Asymmetrical 6-window range. All C20 casements in small
openings, 2 on ground floor to left have slate dripmoulds and 2 on right
with segmented brick arches with keystones and with dripmoulds above.
Projecting lateral stack at centre with set-offs, cornice and tall rendered
brick shaft. Projection at left end of south front was probably a stair
turret and to its right a doorway with a C20 glazed porch.
Interior: Front end room of Rest cottage has closely spaced chamfered
cross-beams without stops and with later joists inserted between; and
fireplace in left end wall with stone rubble jambs and renewed lintel. C18
2-panel doors on first floor. Forge Cottage has no exposed interior
features. The roof space only of Forge Cottage was inspected; it has collar
lapped and pegged to face of straight principals.

Listing NGR: SX8042942811

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603749

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)