Description

DORCHESTER HIGH STREET
SU5794 (East side)
5/70 The Old Forge
18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Barn
Gates)

GV II

House. Late C17, extended C18. Rendered timber framing and colourwashed rubble
with brick quoins; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 2-unit lobby-entry
plan, extended. 2 storeys plus attics. Original 3 bays, on right of 4-window
front, form an almost symmetrical arrangement with 6-panel door between 3-light
casements, with casements of 3,1 and 3 lights at first floor, and with 2 small
roof dormers flanking a central stack with 3 diagonal shafts. Later rubble bay
has 3-light casements, at ground and first floors, and a gable stack. All
windows have leaded lights. Right gable wall has further casements. Rear wall
has some exposed framing.

Listing NGR: SU5772294543

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26650492

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Recommended Books

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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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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)