Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1983. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-bastion-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, the Square, Yattendon
- OS grid reference
- SU 552 744
- Coordinates
- 51.46655, -1.20572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house dating from around 1500, with a 19th-century refacing and 20th-century additions. It features a timber frame that has been later covered with white-painted brick, and it has an old tiled roof with an end stack on the east side. The house consists of two framed bays and stands two storeys high.
On the north front, there are two 19th-century leaded casements with two lights each on the first floor, and on the ground floor, there are two 19th-century casements with two lights to the left and a three-light casement to the right. A six-panelled door is set back to the right within a two-storey 20th-century addition. Inside, the cottage has a crown post roof supported by chamfered timbers.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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