The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. House.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- brooding-fireplace-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Forge, High Street, Brinkley
- OS grid reference
- TL 628 547
- Coordinates
- 52.16727, 0.37937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a house dating from the early 19th century, built after the enclosure of 1816. It has a timber frame with plaster and features a local red brick stack at one end and a rear stack. The roof is covered with slate. On the first floor, there are four flush framed sash windows, with sixteen panes in two windows and twelve panes in the other two. The entrance door, located to the right of center, has six raised and fielded panels.
Local climate
The Old Forge sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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