Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. A Early Modern House. 1 related planning application.
Old Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- riven-render-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
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage, 2, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1DA
- OS grid reference
- TL 626 220
- Coordinates
- 51.87286, 0.36114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge Cottage is a 17th-century house located on the south side of Stortford Road in Great Dunmow. It is one storey high with attics, and has a gabled peg tile roof with a single gabled casement dormer window in the front roof slope. The rear of the house has two later lean-to extensions and a large 19th-century red brick stack. The front elevation features a door and a casement window, along with old pargetting. One flank elevation has the lower half of the wall clad in wide painted weatherboarding. Originally a small house, it has a side purlin roof.
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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