Forge Cottage and Old Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1974. Houses. 1 related planning application.
Forge Cottage and Old Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ruined-wattle-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1974
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Forge Cottage and Old Rectory Cottage, Wistanstow, SY7 8DQ
- OS grid reference
- SO 432 856
- Coordinates
- 52.46623, -2.83739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage and Old Rectory Cottage are two houses dating from the 17th century with later additions. They feature a timber-frame and plaster construction, painted sandstone rubble, and a thatched roof with a brick ridge and end stack.
The exterior consists of two and a half bays, with a later rubble bay added to the left. The buildings are single-storey with an attic and have a four-window range that includes 18th, 19th, and 20th-century lights and casements. There are two 20th-century gabled porches with part-glazed double doors, along with two dormers and one half-dormer that have 19th-century two-light casements beneath eyebrow thatch. The left side of the building is returned and made of rubble, featuring a 19th-century light at the rear. The rear includes a 19th-century brick lean-to and an original rubble lean-to, with various window lights. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Forge Cottage and Old Rectory Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 — 2 transactions since 2002
- 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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