Old Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Old Forge House
- WRENN ID
- salt-copper-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Forge House, 255 and 257, Hertingfordbury Road, Hertford, SG14 2LB
- OS grid reference
- TL 307 120
- Coordinates
- 51.79184, -0.10615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge House is an 18th-century house that has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure, with old tile and modern tiled roofs, and red brick chimneys that have oversailing bands. The house has a central entry plan and is two storeys high.
On the exterior, both the first and ground floors have two flush-set 16-pane sash windows. The ground floor includes a modern six-panel door with an architrave surround, a shallow fanlight, and a cornice door hood supported by cut bracket modillions. To the left, there is a recessed one-bay wing (No.257) that is three storeys tall, featuring one sash window on the first floor, a small casement window on the second floor, and a modern wide small-paned bow window on the ground floor.
The interior has not been inspected. Old Forge House is included as part of a significant grouping with Nos. 251 and 253.
Local climate
Old Forge House 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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