Top Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1988. Cottage.
Top Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-string-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnsley
- Constituency
- Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Top Forge Cottage, Forge Lane, Hunshelf
- OS grid reference
- SK 294 998
- Coordinates
- 53.49484, -1.55801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Top Forge Cottage is a late 18th century building that was originally an office but is now used as a cottage. It features coursed rubble and ashlar construction with slate roofs, and has a lateral and a gabled wall stack. The cottage is a single storey plus attic and has a three-bay front. The central entrance is a 20th century glazed door that is accessed by five steps. To the left of the door is a single glazing bar sash window, and further left is another single glazing bar sash set in the projecting angle facade; both windows are connected by a continuous cill band. To the right of the door is a tripartite plain sash window. Above the central door, there is a four-light casement window in a gabled dormer. This building served as the former office for Wortley Top Forge and is located within the context of this scheduled ancient monument. It is one of only three surviving water-powered hammer forges in the UK.
Local climate
Top Forge Cottage receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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