The Old Forge, 81, Old Dover Road is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. Forge.
The Old Forge, 81, Old Dover Road
- WRENN ID
- winter-latch-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Forge
- OS grid reference
- TR 154 570
- Coordinates
- 51.27158, 1.08802
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge, located at 81 Old Dover Road, is a building dated 1694 that has undergone significant restoration. It features two storeys and attics. The left side of the building has a ground floor made of brick, while the first floor is timber framed and plastered, dating from the 19th century, with some original quatrefoil decoration visible in the gable. The roof is tiled and includes one dormer and one gable. The windows are mostly mullioned and transomed. The ground floor has a porch, and the doorcase is adorned with a flat wooden hood supported by two elaborately carved console brackets. There is also a fire plaque from 1777. The Old Forge is part of a group with Nos 77 to 81A.
Local climate
The Old Forge, 81, Old Dover Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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