Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1980. A Georgian Residential.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- noble-span-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1980
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Forge House, High Street, Charing
- OS grid reference
- TQ 953 495
- Coordinates
- 51.2114, 0.79596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is a pair of 18th century cottages located on the east side of High Street in Charing. The buildings are two storeys tall with a basement, constructed from red brick and topped with a tiled roof. They feature three casement windows and a stringcourse. Forge House has a door with four moulded panels set within a brick porch. The adjacent cottage, No 80, has a doorcase with a flat hood supported by brackets. Both cottages have brick relieving arches above their ground floor windows.
Local climate
Forge House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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