Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1980. A N/A Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-stronghold-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1980
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- N/A
- Address
- Forge Cottage, the Street, Bishopsbourne, CT4 5HT
- OS grid reference
- TR 189 525
- Coordinates
- 51.23018, 1.13455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century building of red brick with a tile mansard roof, incorporating a dormer window with three lights. One side of the building is tile-hung. The cottage has two storeys and an attic. The front has two windows of three lights on each floor; the ground-floor windows are topped with segmental arches. A doorway was added later in the 19th century in a Tudor style, featuring carved spandrels and a four-centred head above the door.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 2009
- 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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