Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- brooding-rubble-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Wilkins Green Lane, Colney Heath
- OS grid reference
- TL 202 076
- Coordinates
- 51.75486, -0.25985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house that was formerly a forge, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with 19th to 20th century alterations. The building has a timber frame, with a plastered ground floor and a weatherboarded upper floor. It features a plain tile gable end roof and stands two storeys tall. The front has three 20th century glazing bar casements, and there is a 20th century lean-to on the left end. At the right end, there is a one-storey and attic bay, likely older than the main part, which includes a gabled eaves dormer. Inside, there is a central inglenook and an attached 17th century staircase. The right end has a lower ceiling and exposed close studding, while the upper floor's central bay showcases good exposed joists.
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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
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- 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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