Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. Cottage.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-beam-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Haverhill Road, Horseheath
- OS grid reference
- TL 612 471
- Coordinates
- 52.09962, 0.3532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a cottage with origins in the 17th century, which was remodeled in the 18th century and has a modern addition. The building has been renovated and features a timber frame with long straw thatch on the 17th to 18th-century part. It has a ridge stack and is one storey with an attic. There is one modern dormer on the front and three modern casement windows on either side of the baffle entry doorway. The north end includes a modern crosswing. Inside, the center bay was probably originally open to the roof. The end rooms have exposed joists laid flat from the 17th century, while the center room features an exposed 18th-century chamfered ceiling beam.
Local climate
Forge Cottage 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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