Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bedford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-corbel-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bedford
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Rushden Road, Milton Ernest, MK44 1RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 018 560
- Coordinates
- 52.19328, -0.51133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century former smithy. It has a timber frame with colourwashed plaster on a brick plinth, and an old clay tile roof. Two gable-end brick stacks are present. The cottage is two storeys high. The first floor has three side-sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor has three modern windows set into larger openings. A small, colourwashed brick extension with an old clay tile roof adjoins the left-hand side.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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