Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-basalt-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, the Heath, Woolpit
- OS grid reference
- TL 984 614
- Coordinates
- 52.21588, 0.90323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century, with some remodelling in the early 19th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell lobby-entrance plan. The structure is timber-framed and encased in 19th-century brick, which is now painted. The roof is glazed pantiled, having originally been thatched, and there are three 19th-century raking casement dormers. A central 19th-century chimney made of red brick is present. The windows are 19th-century small-pane sashes with cambered heads. The entrance includes a 20th-century half-glazed panelled door and a lean-to glazed porch. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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