Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1979. Cottage.

Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
salt-tracery-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Amber Valley
Constituency
Mid Derbyshire MP: Jonathan Davies (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1979
Type
Cottage
Address
Forge Cottage, Makeney Road, Belper
OS grid reference
SK 350 449
Coordinates
53.00039, -1.47882
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forge Cottage is an early to mid 19th century coursed stone cottage located on a plinth at the front of the road, which may have originally been two separate cottages. The building features moulded stone eaves and a slate roof, and it is two storeys high. There are three windows on the front, with the centre window on the first floor being blank. The windows are strutts iron framed casements with rectangular panes. Additionally, there is a rear cross wing.

Local climate

Forge Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% 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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