Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-hammer-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, 37, High Street East, Uppingham
- OS grid reference
- SP 867 997
- Coordinates
- 52.58857, -0.72042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century, with possible earlier origins. It is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and features a Welsh slate roof with a brick ridge stack. The building has two storeys. On the ground floor, there is a small window, a door beneath a stone lintel, a window beneath a timber lintel in a blocked doorway, another small window, an 8/8 sash window, and another door beneath a timber lintel. The first floor has three 8/8 sash windows. There is a brick addition to the north and a pump on the property. The cottage is included for its group value.
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 78% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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