Birchden Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. Forge.
Birchden Forge
- WRENN ID
- vacant-threshold-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1982
- Type
- Forge
- Address
- Birchden Forge, Withyham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 532 353
- Coordinates
- 51.0968, 0.18691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birchden Forge is an 18th-century building consisting of two parallel ranges and is two storeys high. It features four windows, with the ground floor constructed of painted brick and the upper floor tile-hung. The roof is tiled, and the building has casement windows.
Local climate
Birchden Forge receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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