Forge Bungalows is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Almshouse.
Forge Bungalows
- WRENN ID
- half-moat-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Forge Bungalows, 1-4, the Street, Great Barton
- OS grid reference
- TL 891 670
- Coordinates
- 52.26883, 0.77088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Bungalows is a row of four almshouses built in 1830 by Lady Louisa Bunbury for poor widows. The bungalows are single-storey with a two-storey central porch. They are constructed from a random mixture of flint and small freestone blocks, featuring white brick quoins and dressings, and have slate roofs. There are two internal chimney stacks with plain white brick shafts. The design includes four canted bays with casement windows that have transoms and cross-bars. The central porch has a hipped roof with overhanging eaves, an upper-storey casement window with rounded heads in Gothick style, and a rounded archway at the ground level with two recessed entrance doors. Each gable end of the building has a small enclosed gabled porch with a plank door set in a rounded arched doorway. A plaque above the porch entry reads: 'The Widows' Home. Sacred to the memory of Louisa Emilia Bunbury MDCCCXXX'.
Local climate
Forge Bungalows 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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