The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1983. Forge. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- drifting-steel-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South MP: Chris Philp (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1983
- Type
- Forge
- Address
- The Old Forge, 139, Hayes Lane, CR8 5JR
- OS grid reference
- TQ 319 592
- Coordinates
- 51.31693, -0.10795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge, formerly known as Hayes Cottages, is an early 18th-century building located on Hayes Lane in Kenley. It is two storeys high and features four bays. The ground floor is partly constructed of brick and partly rendered, while the upper floor is tile-hung. The ground floor has modern casement and sash windows, and there is a modern porch. The first floor has Yorkshire sliding windows. The roof is modern and covered with tiles, featuring end stacks and a central stack on the rear slope. The gable end is also tile-hung. The building is listed despite the presence of unsympathetic concrete roof tiles.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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