Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1979. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-chimney-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Constituency
- Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Chelmsford Road, Woodham Mortimer, CM9 6TH
- OS grid reference
- TL 805 048
- Coordinates
- 51.71328, 0.61258
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on Chelmsford Road, Woodham Mortimer. It is constructed with a timber frame and red brick facing, and has a half-hipped roof covered in red plain tiles. The cottage features external chimney stacks on the left and off-centre right sides. It is one storey high with an attic, and has three flat-headed dormers. The front has a three-window range of small-paned vertically sliding sash windows. An open-gabled porch with a vertically boarded door was added in the 20th century and is located off-centre to the left. Red-tiled rear extensions date from the 19th century and later.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 7 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings