Ford Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Forge.
Ford Forge
- WRENN ID
- silver-iron-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Forge
- OS grid reference
- NT 933 384
- Coordinates
- 55.63967, -2.10681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Forge is a building that was originally constructed as a large estate smithy and later became a commercial forge specializing in making spades. It is now disused. The forge was built in 1767 and extended around 1830 to 1840. The structure features roughly-coursed stone with dressings and has a roof made of Welsh slate and concrete tiles. It stands two storeys high and is divided into two sections.
The older section on the left consists of four bays and has steps leading to a boarded door located in the second bay. It also features shuttered windows and a steeply-pitched roof with flat coping, along with a brick end stack and a ridge stack.
The lower 19th-century section on the right has five bays, with stone steps leading to a boarded door in the central bay. The left bay includes boarded double doors, while the fourth bay features boarded double doors set within a Tudor arch that has a keystone. This section also has shuttered windows.
The forge is included in the register for its historical significance.
Local climate
Ford Forge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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