The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Havering local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- fading-tallow-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Havering
- Constituency
- Hornchurch and Upminster MP: Julia Lopez (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Forge, Ockendon Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 593 849
- Coordinates
- 51.54099, 0.29582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge is a 17th century cottage that was formerly a smithy and smithy cottage, located on Ockendon Road in North Ockendon. The building is timber-framed, rendered, and colourwashed. It has two storeys and two bays, with a modern tile roof that is hipped at the south end and gabled at the north end, which appears to be truncated. There is no stack present. A rear wing extends at right angles and is 1.5 storeys high, featuring a modern porch on the left side and two sash windows on the right, along with a brick stack on the rear roof slope. Additionally, there is a weatherboarded wing on the north side that has a pantiled roof hipped at the east.
Local climate
The Forge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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