Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1972. Cottage.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 April 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Dean Lane, Cookham
- OS grid reference
- SU 875 856
- Coordinates
- 51.56298, -0.73772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a cottage located abutting and to the right of The Forge, which is listed separately. It dates from the late 16th century and was extended in the 19th or early 20th century. The cottage features part timber framing with painted brick infill and part painted brick construction. It has a hipped old tile roof and a rectangular plan consisting of one framed bay, with an extension on the northwest and a flat-roofed extension at the rear. The cottage is two storeys high and has a chimney on the ridge. On the first floor, there are two 2-light casements, and on the ground floor, there is one similar casement located to the right of a 20th-century plank door. The interior reveals some visible framing and has a queen post roof.
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 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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