The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1987. A Medieval House. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- solemn-window-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Old Forge, Church Road, Wingfield, IP21 5RA
- OS grid reference
- TM 229 768
- Coordinates
- 52.34466, 1.27192
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a house dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a thatched roof. The building has one and a half storeys and features various casement windows, along with an eyebrow dormer on each slope of the roof. An internal stack is present. To the north, there is a converted smithy that forms a wing of the house; this section is single storey, has a hipped pantiled roof, and includes a mid-20th century entrance door. Originally, it was an open hall house with storied ends, and the stack was added later into the upper end of the hall. On the ground floor, part of an original hall window is exposed, and although the open truss has been removed, the blocked mortices for its arched braces can still be seen in the wall posts on the ground floor.
Local climate
The Old Forge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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