The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- burning-pinnacle-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Forge, High Street, Castle Camps, CB21 4TA
- OS grid reference
- TL 633 434
- Coordinates
- 52.06565, 0.38132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge is an 18th-century cottage. It has been renovated. The building is timber-framed, with rendered plaster walls and a long-straw thatched roof. A ridge stack is present. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, featuring two gabled dormers tiled at the roof. The south wall has two doorways and two window openings.
Local climate
The 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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