The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Forge.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- night-chapel-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Forge
- Address
- The Old Forge, Kitchenham Road, Catsfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 712 154
- Coordinates
- 50.91279, 0.43423
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is an 18th-century building located on Kitchenham Road in Catsfield. It is two storeys high and features five windows. The ground floor is constructed of red brick set on a stone base, while the upper floor is tile hung. The roof is tiled, and the building has casement windows. There is a modern gabled porch at the entrance.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% 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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