The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. House.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- haunted-sandstone-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Forge, Rushden Road, Sandon, SG9 0QS
- OS grid reference
- TL 321 344
- Coordinates
- 51.99251, -0.07666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame set on a brick base, with roughcast and some brick modifications. The roof is tiled, and the building has a three-cell lobby entry design across two storeys. The main entrance is located between the left and centre bays, framed by a 20th-century gabled porch, with a second entrance in the right bay. Most windows are horizontal sliding sashes, except for a 20th-century casement window on the left side of the ground floor. The ridge stack has been rebuilt. The right gable end includes a ground floor lean-to outshut and a first-floor horizontal sliding sash window, with exposed plates and purlins and decorative bargeboards. There is also a 20th-century one-storey outshut on the left end. At the rear, the ground floor features brick casing, 20th-century casements, and two gabled dormers.
Local climate
The Forge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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