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| Forge, Great Corby | ||
| Vulcan's Forge | ||
| locality:- | Great Corby | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | folly | |
| locality type:- | smithy | |
| coordinates:- | NY47205439 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4754 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- Vulcan's forge |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "BLACKSMITH'S SHOP / / / WETHERAL / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 77712 / NY4720354393" |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "Motor repair workshop, formerly blacksmith's shop. 1833, in Roman numerals on one pillar and initials C.M.H. (Howard) on the other, for the Howard family of Corby Castle. Tooled red sandstone ashlar with moulded dressings, slate roof and brick chimney stack. Single storey and attic, of one bay: built to represent Vulcan's forge. Porch has 2 short columns with free capitals, rounded moulded arch with carved circular panel (much weathered), moulded cornice and blocking course: round-headed entrance, with continuous roll-moulding which Pevsner (Buildings of England) considers to have come from a church and dates to c.1200. Decorative butresses to either side of porch, with short walls ending in moulded piers, form back-rest to stone seats. Covered porch was for shoeing horses. Thick iron studded oak door and no windows to front." |
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| hearsay:- |
A square exedra, built 1833 as a smithy, later a motor repair workshop. |
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