Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. A C17, C19 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, 1, Brook Street, Elsworth, CB23 4HX
- OS grid reference
- TL 317 636
- Coordinates
- 52.2554, -0.07188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with a 19th-century extension. It is constructed of gault brick and painted brick, with plain tile roofs. The cottage consists of a one-story-and-attic section to the south, featuring a Mansard roof and a ridge stack, and a two-story, two-bay extension to the north, with an end stack that may have replaced part of the original building. The south section has two first-floor, four-paned hung sash windows and two casement dormer windows. The north extension features one bay window with hung sashes to the left of a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, and one horizontal sliding sash window and one casement window to the right.
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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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