Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 January 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
tenth-gallery-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 January 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Forge Cottage, Witham Road, White Notley, CM8 1SE
OS grid reference
TL 788 177
Coordinates
51.82955, 0.59355
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forge Cottage is a cottage dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with decorative panel pargetting. The roof is red tile, half-hipped to the right and featuring two gabled dormers. An external red brick chimney stack is located on the left-hand side. The cottage is one storey high with attics, and has two windows with small, modern panes. A central, gabled open porch shelters a vertically boarded door. A wing extends to the rear. Internally, bridging and ceiling joists are visible. A further red brick chimney stack base is located on the right-hand side.

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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • 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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