Old Forge Cottage and Forge is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1987. House, smithy. 9 related planning applications.
Old Forge Cottage and Forge
- WRENN ID
- hollow-moulding-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1987
- Type
- House, smithy
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage and Forge, Salisbury Road, Breamore, SP6 2EA
- OS grid reference
- SU 158 179
- Coordinates
- 50.96109, -1.77575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge Cottage and Forge is a 17th-century timber-frame house with some 18th-century brick cladding and a 19th-century extension. The walls are a mix of exposed timber framing with brick infill and brickwork in a Flemish bond pattern, featuring blue headers, with a cement plinth. The house has a thatched roof, hipped at the south end, while the forge has a slate roof. The house section is two stories high with three windows, featuring casement windows. A boarded door is set within a plain frame. The forge contains 19th-century features.
Local climate
Old Forge Cottage and Forge receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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