The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- quiet-ledge-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Old Forge, 39, High Street, Earls Colne, CO6 2PA
- OS grid reference
- TL 857 289
- Coordinates
- 51.92789, 0.70016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a house and shop that dates back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with 20th-century imitation framing added to the first-floor front and left side. The roof is covered with handmade red plain tiles. The building has a rectangular plan facing south and includes two internal rear stacks. It stands two storeys tall with attics.
On the ground floor, there is one 20th-century casement window and one 20th-century sash window. The first floor has one 20th-century casement window and one early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights. There are two gabled dormers: one has a 19th or 20th-century casement window, and the other features an 18th-century two-light window with a wrought iron casement. The roof is hipped, and there are two 20th-century glazed doors on the left side leading to Queen's Road. The building originally served as a wheelwright's shop in the 17th century and has been a forge since 1747.
Local climate
The Old Forge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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