Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1986. Cottage.
Old Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-alcove-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage, Thurlby Road, Bilsby
- OS grid reference
- TF 469 764
- Coordinates
- 53.26491, 0.20229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a thatched roof with raised brick coped gables and a single axial brick stack. The cottage has a lobby entry and is a single storey with attics. The front has three bays, with a central projecting thatched porch flanked by two single 2-light glazing bar casements from the 20th century. In the attic, there are two 20th-century glazing bar dormer windows with thatched eyebrows. To the right of the main structure is a single storey, two-bay addition.
Local climate
Old Forge Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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