The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Doncaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Smithy.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- low-groin-woodpecker
- 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 Forge, Lady Mary View, Hickleton
- OS grid reference
- SE 478 053
- Coordinates
- 53.54221, -1.27895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge is a smithy, likely built in the early 19th century. It features coursed rubble limestone with stone slate eaves courses beneath pantile roofs. The building is two storeys high and has two windows on the first floor. To the left, there is a single-storey addition that is set back and includes two large doorways and a window. The main workshop, which likely occupies what was once a house, has an old central door with a deep lintel, flanked by horizontally-sliding sash windows with glazing bars, projecting sills, and deep lintels. There are two similar windows on the first floor. The building has kneelers and ashlar gable copings, with a 20th-century stack at the right end and an old brick external stack on the left. The addition to the left has two boarded garage doors and a window to the right with a projecting sill and boarded shutter, topped with a hipped roof.
Inside, the two-storey section is open to the roof and contains a forge against the right gable, along with a full set of workshop fittings, including some early 19th-century wall cupboards.
Local climate
The Forge receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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