Cottage with Attached Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1989. Cottage, forge. 1 related planning application.
Cottage with Attached Forge
- WRENN ID
- proud-gutter-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1989
- Type
- Cottage, forge
- Address
- Cottage with Attached Forge, LE16 7TW
- OS grid reference
- SP 726 926
- Coordinates
- 52.52688, -0.9302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cottage with an attached forge, dating from the early 17th century, with later alterations in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed with cob infill, now covered in stucco, and features a slate roof with brick gable stacks. The north gable has bargeboarding, and there is a tarred brick plinth. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and consists of two bays. The west wall has a single three-light casement window, and above it are two gabled dormers with two-light casements. A wooden corner post is visible at the southwest corner. The south gable end wall has an off-centre doorway with a sloping hood supported by brackets, which shelters a 20th-century part-glazed door and a two-light casement. Above to the right, there is a small casement in the attic.
Inside, the cottage has been significantly altered in the 19th and 20th centuries, but the ground floor retains a beam with the incised date of 1628. The upper floor features a chamfered beam with an early 17th-century stop. There is a 1½ storey addition to the north, constructed of brick and now rendered on an ironstone plinth. This addition has a slate roof with a gable stack and an off-centre doorway with a cambered arch and a plank door. To the left of the doorway, there is a blind opening followed by a two-light casement, both with cambered arches. Above, there are three oblong blind openings.
Local climate
Cottage with Attached Forge receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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