Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-stone-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Cox Green, King's Walden
- OS grid reference
- TL 162 246
- Coordinates
- 51.90848, -0.31132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, which has been altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame that is cased in red brick and has a steep old red tile roof. The building is rectangular and has two storeys, facing south with its gable end towards the lane. There is a noticeable change in alignment of the south wall a third of the way from the west end, where a large internal axial chimney rises from the roof along the north side of the ridge, topped with three diagonally set square shafts. The west gable includes a recessed two-light casement window on each floor, both set under segmental arches. The house also has a moulded bargeboard and shows evidence of a side-purlin roof.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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