Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-portal-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Old Ipswich Road, Ardleigh, CO7 7QR
- OS grid reference
- TM 022 291
- Coordinates
- 51.92431, 0.93949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with later alterations and additions. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a red pantiled left range, a red tiled hipped right crosswing, and a lower left range. There is a chimney stack located to the left of the main range and to the left of the crosswing. The roof extends forward to the right of the main range, forming a porch. The left range is one storey, the centre range is one storey with attics and has a gabled dormer, while the right crosswing is two storeys high. The building has a window arrangement of 1:2:1, consisting of vari-light diamond leaded casements. The main range has a plank and muntin door. Notably, George Smith, a blacksmith, lived here in 1796, as recorded in F.H. Erith's "Ardleigh in 1796," published in 1978.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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