The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- grim-keystone-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Forge, the Street, Little Snoring, Fakenham, NR21 0HU
- OS grid reference
- TF 955 321
- Coordinates
- 52.85146, 0.90321
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a 17th-century cottage located in Little Snoring. It is constructed from quaternary flint and chert, with brick dressings and a red pantiled roof. The building is a single-storey lobby-entrance house with attics. The ground floor features three windows, including two 20th-century casements with glazing bars and one early 20th-century casement with plate glass panes and a glazing bar head on the north side. There is a 20th-century brick gabled porch with a glazed door.
The cottage has two attic dormer windows with casements that have single glazing bars, set under wedge roofs. An off-centre stack is present, and below the eaves, there are elaborate brick lozenges. The north gable displays brick lozenges and a partly blocked rectangular brick-dressed window with a brick drip mould. At the rear, there is one blocked brick-dressed rectangular window. The south gable has been rebuilt in the 20th century, and there is a single-storey 20th-century flat-roofed extension on the north side. Inside, the ground floor room on the north side features a chamfered and stopped spine beam and a bressummer beam.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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