The Forge Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Restaurant. 5 related planning applications.
The Forge Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- blind-foundation-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Forge Restaurant, High Street, Cookham, SL6 9SF
- OS grid reference
- SU 895 853
- Coordinates
- 51.55975, -0.7101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A 16th-century cottage, now a restaurant, situated on the south side of Cookham High Street. The building is predominantly timber-framed, with sections encased in painted brick, and has a gabled tile roof. It follows a T-plan layout, comprising two framed bays with a lower extension to the left. A jettied gable projects to the road. The building is partially two storeys high and partially one storey high. The road-facing front features a jettied gable on the right-hand side, with a three-light casement window on both the first and ground floors. A similar window, together with an entrance door, is positioned on the left. The middle section contains a single bay with three-light casement windows. The lower left-hand section has one similar window on the ground floor. All windows are 20th-century replacements with leaded lights. The interior retains a good-quality timber frame visible on the ground and first floors of the jettied two-framed-bay section. However, in one bay on the left, the timber frame has been replaced with fibreglass imitations.
Local climate
The Forge Restaurant 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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