Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-postern-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Town Lane, Mobberley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 786 796
- Coordinates
- 53.31304, -2.32257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house that was formerly a village forge and blacksmith's house, built in 1775. It features red brick in Flemish bond and English garden wall bond, topped with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high, with a road-facing facade in Flemish bond that includes vitrified headers. Darker plum-coloured brick is used for the corners and to create vertical patterns of alternating headers and stretchers.
The central bay slightly projects and has a rubbed brick basket arch that originally led to a carriage doorway, complete with a keystone and stone skewbacks. This archway is now bricked in and contains a leaded two-light wooden casement window. Above it, there is a two-light casement window with a splayed head made of rubbed brick and a keystone.
On the ground floor to the left, there are two windows: a three-light casement with a splayed head and keystone at the far left, and to the right of it, a splayed-headed opening with a keystone that was originally a doorway but is now a two-light casement window. The right-hand ground floor windows have been bricked up.
On the first floor, there is a three-light casement window to the left, with a blind window next to it that contains a datestone inscribed "ID 1775." There is another three-light casement window to the right. All first-floor windows have splayed heads and keystones. The gable ends are constructed in English garden wall bond, and there are two ridge chimney-stacks.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
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