Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
Old Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-pewter-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage, 45, High Street, Markyate, AL3 8PG
- OS grid reference
- TL 060 165
- Coordinates
- 51.83768, -0.46222
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on the east side of Markyate High Street. It is a two-storey, three-window-wide building constructed of plum brick with some grey bricks. Architectural details include flat gauged arches, a stucco plinth, and a slated roof. The house follows a double-pile symmetrical plan, with a chimney located at the south end gable. The west front features flush-box sash windows with 6/6 panes. The central doorway has a contemporary wooden surround with reeded details, corner blocks, paterae, and a moulded open pediment. The door itself is six-panelled, with the two lower panels flush-beaded and the upper panels glazed. The reveals are panelled, with the lower section flush-beaded and the upper section featuring fielded panels.
Local climate
Old Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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 — 3 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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