Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. Estate cottage. 1 related planning application.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-solder-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1986
- Type
- Estate cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Shotley Low Quarter, DH8 8SG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 084 517
- Coordinates
- 54.86076, -1.87018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an estate cottage, originally a pair, built around 1850. It features a squared stone front with rubble walls and tooled dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. The building is two storeys high with two wide bays.
The central projecting gabled porch includes two single-light windows and has a coped gable with moulded kneelers and pyramidal finials. There is a boarded door beneath a flattened triangular head on each side of the porch. The flanking bays contain two-light mullioned windows, with the upper windows located in half-dormers that are set forward on moulded corbels, which also have similarly styled gables. All openings have chamfered surrounds, and the windows are iron-latticed cross casements with hoodmoulds.
The end gables are coped on moulded kneelers and feature stepped and corniced stacks. There is a later rear extension that is not of interest. The building is marked as The Forge on the Ordnance Survey map.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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