The Forge
THE FORGE, 77, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298393
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE, 77, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298393
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Nov-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORGE, 77, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE, 77, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- South Kesteven (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harlaxton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 88530 32552
Details
HARLAXTON SK8832 HIGH STREET 1315-0/14/197 (East side) 24/09/79 No.77 The Forge (Formerly Listed as: SWINE HILL The Forge) GV II
House. Dated 1794, remodelled c1830, with addition in matching style late C20. Brick with ashlar dressings and renewed plain tile roofs. 2 stone gable stacks with coped square double flues. Dentillated eaves, coped gables. 2 storeys; 3 window range. Openings have stone surrounds and mullions and leaded glazing, under earlier brick flat arches. Central 2-light window with, above it, a datestone inscribed "GDG 1794". On either side, a 3-light window. Central Tudor arched stone doorcase with adjoining single light window to right, under a common label mould. C20 door. Beyond, a 3-light window on each side. To left, single storey garage. This building is one of those rebuilt c1790-1820 by George de Ligne Gregory and remodelled in a picturesque style c1820-1840 by Gregory Gregory, successive Lords of the Manor of Harlaxton. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 361-362; Rowlands G: Harlaxton Manor: Harlaxton: 1984-: 20-29).
Listing NGR: SK8853032552
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383000
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 361-362
Rowlands, G, Harlaxton Manor, (1984), 20-29
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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