The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. Forge.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- former-ember-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Forge
- Address
- The Forge, the Green, Flempton
- OS grid reference
- TL 812 699
- Coordinates
- 52.29804, 0.65714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge is an early 19th-century building that serves as a forge. It is a single-storey structure made of red brick, with some flintwork, and features a pantiled roof. The building has a casement window with a segmental head and a boarded entrance door. There are also boarded doors leading to a workshop on the right side. The hearth and other fittings are intact and currently in use. The Forge has group value with Forge Cottage.
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 88% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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