The Forge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Forge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-rubble-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Forge Farmhouse, Bures Road, White Colne, CO6 2QF
- OS grid reference
- TL 882 313
- Coordinates
- 51.94913, 0.73798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge Farmhouse is a late 17th-century house, extended in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a weatherboarded dado and a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The house has a four-bay lobby-entrance plan, facing southeast, with an axial stack and a 20th-century rear extension. It is one storey high with attics.
On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century horizontal sash windows of eight lights and one 20th-century casement. Three 20th-century casements are set within lean-to dormers. A plain boarded door is contained within a 20th-century rustic porch. The roof is hipped and has a gambrel shape.
The front of the house has incomplete 18th-century chevron plasterwork in panels. Above the door is a plaster panel decorated with stars and bearing the date 1661. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams and plain vertical joists joined to them with soffit tenons and diminished haunches.
Local climate
The Forge Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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