The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- odd-lead-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Forge, Allensmore, HR2 9BD
- OS grid reference
- SO 439 348
- Coordinates
- 52.00882, -2.81821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a house dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks. The building has a rectangular plan oriented north-east to south-west and stands two storeys tall.
On the north-west elevation, there are two mid-19th century casement windows with two lights each. The ground floor windows are deeper and have cambered heads. Flanking the central early 20th-century door, which has four panels and is set beneath a contemporary gabled canopy, are two brick pilasters that rise to the eaves. A brick plat band runs along the building.
At the rear, there is a mid-19th century brick catslide extension. The Old Forge was formerly the parish post office.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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