Old Bowling Forge is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House.
Old Bowling Forge
- WRENN ID
- small-roof-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Bowling Forge, the Green, Cottered
- OS grid reference
- TL 318 292
- Coordinates
- 51.9463, -0.08365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Bowling Forge is a house dating from the late 17th century, with a matching 20th-century rear wing. It has a timber frame resting on a tarred brick sill and is plastered, topped with a steep half-hipped thatch roof. The house is small, two stories high, and has a two-cell end chimney plan, facing east. The rear wing, which is also two stories, features a central chimney and is hipped to the west. The front of the house has two windows on each floor, which are two-light flush casement windows with horizontal glazing bars. There is an internal gable chimney at the south end with a red brick top, and a small casement window on each floor at the south end. The entrance is now located in the rear wing at the re-entrant angle, featuring a two-panel door with a flat hood. This building is a picturesque feature on the village green.
Local climate
Old Bowling Forge 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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