Listed Building: FORGE SQUARE (1258857)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 771, 19, 666
Date assigned 16 January 1975
Date last amended

Description

LEIGH LEIGH 5280 High Street (North Side ) Nos 1 to 7 (consec) (Forge Square) TQ 5446 19/666 II GV 2. 1886 by George and Peto. L-shaped range of buildings. No 7 is an upstairs flat reached by external covered wood staircase at right end. Fairly high pitched, gable ended tiled roofs. Tudor style. Ornamental projecting wood-shingled gable, with pierced bargeboards and 5-light oriel, on inner return of projecting left range. 2 storeys, 6 windows in all, inside the L. Left wing of coursed freestone has double-overhung end gable, half timbered and with plaster filling. Right wing facing road has 2 wide gables across full width, half-timbered and with plaster filling. Brick ground floor here and around angle below shingled gable. Irregular many-mullioned casements, some flat, some bays. Tudor arches to doorways, some of stone, some of carved wood. Tall, ornamental chimney of brick and stone. Tile hung left return. South View, Nos 1 to 7 (consec) (Forge square), The Old Forge and Forge Cottage form a group. Listing NGR: TQ5491346558

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5491 4655 (point)
Map sheet TQ54NW
Civil Parish LEIGH, SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 10:25AM