Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1986. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-loggia-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Medway
- Constituency
- Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Bush Road, Cuxton, ME2 1HF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 696 671
- Coordinates
- 51.37842, 0.43637
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Bush Road in Cuxton. It is constructed of red brick and covered in weatherboarding, topped with a plain tiled roof. The cottage stands two storeys high and features two casement windows. At the rear, there is a catslide outshut.
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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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