The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Cottage and forge.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- dark-stone-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- Cottage and forge
- Address
- The Forge, Dean Lane, Cookham
- OS grid reference
- SU 876 856
- Coordinates
- 51.56296, -0.73765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge is a cottage and forge dating from the late 16th century, with extensions from the 19th century and alterations made in the 20th century. The building features part timber framing with painted brick infill and part painted brick construction. The cottage has an old tile gabled roof, while the forge has a tile hipped roof. The structure has a rectangular plan consisting of two framed bays, with the forge extension located on the southeast side. It is two storeys high at the cottage and one storey at the forge, which has a chimney on the rear roof slope.
On the road front, the forge is on the left side and includes a plinth, a small casement window with a glazing bar on the left, and a plain plank stable door on the right. The cottage features two 20th-century two-light metal casement windows with leaded lights on both the ground and first floors, along with a 20th-century planked entrance door on the right. Inside, the cottage has chamfered joists with run-out stops, while the beams are similar but feature bar stops. The forge retains a furnace and bellows that are still in use.
Local climate
The Forge 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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