Description

CLAVERDON

SP26SW CHURCH ROAD
1457-1/6/26 (South side)
02/08/72 The Forge House
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH ROAD, Claverdon
The Old Smithy Cottage)

GV II

House. Late C16/early C17 with later additions and alterations
including extensions to right, left and to rear 1980s. Small,
square panels of timber-framing with painted plaster infill
and plain-tile roof with pinkish-brown brick stacks. 3-unit,
lobby-entrance plan.
EXTERIOR: single-storey with attics, 3-window range;
single-storey, single bay extensions to each end. Brick
plinth. Ground floor: steps to off-centre left entrance, plank
door in gabled porch. To right extension a further plank door.
Casement windows throughout with sills, that to left under
cambered arch. Steeply-pitched gabled roof with 3 gabled
dormers fitted with casements under cambered arches and with
sills. Large rear stack.
INTERIOR: chamfered beam to left room on huge corbel at right
end; exposed rafters to lobby; first floor has extensive
evidence of timber-framing throughout.
Forms a group with The Old Smithy (qv).

Listing NGR: SP2000764736

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662141

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Recommended Books

• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)