Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1984. Cottage.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-loft-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Main Street, Great Casterton
- OS grid reference
- TF 000 090
- Coordinates
- 52.67002, -0.52227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century cottage constructed of coursed rubble, topped with a Collyweston stone slate roof. The north end stack has been rebuilt in brick. The cottage is two storeys high and features a two-window range. On the first floor, there are three-light horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars and cills. The ground floor has three-light casement windows with cills, set beneath lintels that have flush keystones. The entrance is located on the side, and there is a gabled wing at the rear.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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