Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
small-solder-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Forge Cottage, Harpenden Road, St. Michael, AL3 6JJ
OS grid reference
TL 141 107
Coordinates
51.78381, -0.34656
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forge Cottage is a cottage that was originally built as a forge in the late 17th century. It features a timber frame with red brick infill and has a plain tile roof. The original structure consists of one bay on the left side. On the ground floor, there is an 18th-century chequered brick and plank door, with a 2-light 18th-century leaded casement window to the left of the door and a similar casement window above it. The end elevation reveals an exposed clasped purlin roof. At the rear, there is a late 19th-century two-storey extension that matches the style of the original building. The right bay at the front is a 20th-century addition with a tile-hung upper floor.

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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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