Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-rotunda-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 August 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, the Cross, Bilsington, TN25 7JX
- OS grid reference
- TR 039 344
- Coordinates
- 51.0735, 0.91025
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located on The Cross in Bilsington. The building is constructed of red and painted brick with a plain tiled roof. It is a single-storey building with a moulded stack at the end on the left side. The windows are sash windows; the left and right windows have vertical glazing bars, while the central window is a tripartite mullioned and transomed casement. There is a half-glazed door to the left side, a panelled door in the centre, and double carriage doors in the centre-right, also half-glazed with panelled lower sections. The cottage is included in the list for its group value.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 2024
- 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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