Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rotunda-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Great Maplestead, CO9 2RE
- OS grid reference
- TL 810 345
- Coordinates
- 51.97972, 0.6347
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a 17th or 18th century cottage located on Lucking Street in Great Maplestead. Originally listed in 1962 as "Barons (cottage)" with the former smithy, it has since been renamed. The cottage is timber-framed with parget plastering, and has a red plain tiled roof with three gabled dormers. A wing extends to the rear, and there are two red brick chimney stacks. The building is one storey in height with attics, and features a three-window range of 19th-century casement windows.
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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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