Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vast-floor-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Main Street, West Ilsley, RG20 7AJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 474 824
- Coordinates
- 51.5394, -1.31717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century cottage with an early 19th-century extension. It is located on the south side of Main Street, West Ilsley. The cottage is brick built, using red stretchers and grey headers, with a tiled roof. It has an L-shaped plan, with an outshut connecting the arms of the L. There are two storeys, and a single-storey extension to the south-east. A band runs along the first floor, and a stack is located on the north-east arm of the L.
The north-east elevation displays a later build to the left. It features two two-light casement windows on the first floor and three-light casement windows on the ground floor, all with cambered heads. A central boarded door is sheltered by a gabled hood.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- 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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