The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Smithy.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- peeling-sill-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Doncaster
- Constituency
- Doncaster North MP: Ed Miliband (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Smithy
- Address
- The Old Forge, Main Street, Hooton Pagnell
- OS grid reference
- SE 485 082
- Coordinates
- 53.56858, -1.26769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a smithy built in the late 18th to early 19th century. It features rubble limestone construction and has stone slate eaves courses leading to a pantile roof. The building is single-storey and consists of two cells. On the left side, there is a quoined entrance to the shoeing bay, which has a wooden lintel. The workshop on the right includes a casement window with glazing bars, also beneath a wooden lintel. There is a brick stack at the end on the right and a ridge stack located on the partition wall.
Inside, the workshop remains unimproved and contains a brick hearth at each end. The Old Forge is included in the listing for its group value.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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