Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1974. House.

Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
plain-rotunda-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1974
Type
House
Address
Forge Cottage, Ousden
OS grid reference
TL 748 592
Coordinates
52.20392, 0.5566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forge Cottage is an early 18th-century house that features a timber frame and plaster exterior. It has one storey with attics and includes casement windows and a boarded door. The roof is thatched and has one gabled dormer window.

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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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