Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. House.

Old Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
tangled-passage-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Uttlesford
Constituency
North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1967
Type
House
Address
Old Forge Cottage, 1, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1DA
OS grid reference
TL 626 219
Coordinates
51.87285, 0.36124
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Forge Cottage is a house dating from the 13th and 17th centuries. It has two storeys and part of one storey with attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster, featuring fragments of notable old pargetting. The house is formed from an old crosswing and part of a 17th-century structure. The front displays a two-storey jettied section with a hipped peg tile roof at the northwest corner and a 20th-century small pane window in an earlier canted bay. On the first floor, there is one 19th-century two-light casement window. The one-storey and attics section has a gabled peg tile roof and a gabled two-flight dormer with a horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars. The ground floor features an entrance door with steps, a late 18th-century square shopfront, and a bay window with small panes. Inside the two-storey half, the early crosswing reveals a crown post roof, truncated at the front, with wide straight bracing. There is also one late 16th-century door still in place on the first floor.

Local climate

Old 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 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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