1 During a watching brief on groundworks at the Old Forge, some information was recorded as to the pevious building on the site. The original element consists of the two ...
At the front the Old Forge is a four-bay brick building of probably mid 19th-century date, with three two-storey bays and one single-storey. The original element consists of the two central two-storey bays on stone foundations. There is a strong possibility that the stone foundations originally supported an earlier timber-framed building, the superstructure of which was removed and replaced in brick, re-using the original foundations.