The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1983. Forge.

The Forge

WRENN ID
steep-latch-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1983
Type
Forge
Address
The Forge, Manor Lane, Horringer
OS grid reference
TL 827 620
Coordinates
52.22625, 0.6737
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Forge is a forge and cottage built in the early 19th century. It is two storeys high and features two windows. The building is constructed of gault brick and has a slated roof adorned with carved bargeboards and pendant finials. An axial chimney made of gault brick has three hexagonal flues. The windows are framed with splayed limestone, some of which have hood moulds, and are fitted with timber casements that include leaded lights. There is a splayed one-storey bay with a limestone frame and a hipped slated roof. The entrance door, located at the side, is boarded and battened, topped with a limestone lintel that has an arched soffit. At the rear, the forge is a single storey with gault brick and a hipped pantiled roof, featuring original casements and boarded doors.

Local climate

The Forge 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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