Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- sharp-tracery-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge House, Reculver Lane, CT6 6TA
- OS grid reference
- TR 210 679
- Coordinates
- 51.36787, 1.17442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is an 18th-century building located on the northwest side of Reculver Lane in Hillborough. It is two storeys high and has been refronted with cement. The roof is tiled and features a modillion eaves cornice. The house has two windows in total, primarily consisting of casement windows, although there is one sash window with missing glazing bars. On the left side elevation, there is a doorcase that includes a modern flat hood supported by brackets. To the right side, there is a modern one-storey extension finished in stucco.
Local climate
Forge House 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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