Old Forge Cottage the Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Barnet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1983. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Old Forge Cottage the Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- pitched-kitchen-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Barnet
- Constituency
- Hendon MP: David Pinto-Duschinsky (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage the Old Forge, Holcolmbe Hill Nw7, NW7 4ES
- OS grid reference
- TQ 221 932
- Coordinates
- 51.62498, -0.23645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes an 18th-century group of buildings consisting of two two-storey cottages and a single-storey forge building situated between them. The forge, two windows wide with a doorway, is stuccoed and has a hipped red tile roof. To the right of the forge is a cottage, one window wide, with a matching red tile roof. The group is described as a picturesque arrangement, overlooking a small green.
Local climate
Old Forge Cottage the Old Forge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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