Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-gallery-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Thruxton, SP11 8NF
- OS grid reference
- SU 290 455
- Coordinates
- 51.20822, -1.58491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that incorporates a former forge building. The house is timber-framed with plaster infill, while the forge has cob walls set on chalk and flint. The roof is thatched, with a hip form, lower over the forge section, and includes an eyebrow dormer. The building is one storey and an attic, with a lower element of one storey relating to the former forge. The fenestration is irregular. The west end has a jettied timber frame. Casement windows are present throughout. Plain doorways are characteristic, with the house door located in an angle and featuring carved brackets to a hood now covered by thatch.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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