Forge Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Forge Cottages
- WRENN ID
- carved-buttress-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, the Street, Sedlescombe, TN33 0QA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 782 178
- Coordinates
- 50.93286, 0.5351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottages comprise a group of cottages, originally four in number, located on the east side of The Street in Sedlescombe. Dating from the 17th century, the building is in an L-shape. It is two storeys high with an attic in the gable end, and has five windows. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, while the upper portion is tile-hung. The roof is tiled. The windows are casement type.
Local climate
Forge Cottages receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 9 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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