The Cottage the Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. Historic building. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage the Forge
- WRENN ID
- over-clay-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- Historic building
- Address
- The Cottage the Forge, the Street, Stone-Cum-Ebony, TN30 7JN
- OS grid reference
- TQ 939 278
- Coordinates
- 51.01722, 0.76422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage and The Forge is an L-shaped timber-framed building that dates from the 16th century or earlier. The ground floor has been refaced with red brick, which is now painted, while the first floor is tile hung. The southernmost window bay on the west front features an oversailing first floor that extends over the ground floor below, which has a small 19th-century bay window. The building has a hipped tiled roof and an unusually-shaped 17th-century twisted brick chimney stack. It has casement windows and stands two storeys tall, with two windows facing west and two facing south. This building was formerly used as the Parish Workhouse.
Local climate
The Cottage the Forge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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