Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1975. House.
Old Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lunar-clay-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage, Wareside
- OS grid reference
- TL 395 155
- Coordinates
- 51.82123, 0.02281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge Cottage is a house from the early 19th century. It has a timber frame and is covered in white weatherboarding, topped with a pyramidal hipped roof made of Welsh slate. The cottage is a single storey and faces north, featuring a paved forecourt enclosed by a picket fence that leads to the road. The front of the house is symmetrical, with a central six-panel fielded door surrounded by a simple frame. On either side of the door are flush box sash windows, each with twelve small panes. There are two additional similar box sash windows on each side of the cottage, but these have six panes each. An internal chimney is located on the right side wall, and there is a rear entrance on the left that connects to Old Forge House.
Local climate
Old Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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