Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Colchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1982. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-mortar-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Colchester
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, 10, East Mersea Road, West Mersea
- OS grid reference
- TM 026 141
- Coordinates
- 51.78963, 0.93744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an early 19th century house located on East Mersea Road. It is likely framed and has a plastered exterior, standing two storeys tall with a pyramidal slated roof. The building features two end chimney stacks and one rear chimney stack made of red brick. There are two plain front doors, each with simple hoods above them. The cottage has four pairs of sliding sash windows with small panes, arranged in a 2 over 2 configuration, all of which are complete and original.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
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- 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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