Forge Cottage Street Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1976. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Forge Cottage Street Cottage

WRENN ID
shifting-rafter-marsh
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
Cottage
Address
Forge Cottage Street Cottage, Herne Street, Herne and Broomfield, CT6 7JB
OS grid reference
TR 183 658
Coordinates
51.34962, 1.1338
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Forge Cottage and Street Cottage are a pair of cottages, likely dating to circa 1795, set back to back. The front of the cottages is weatherboarded. Forge Cottage has a hipped tiled roof, while Street Cottage has a hipped slate roof. Forge Cottage has two windows, and Street Cottage has one window. Street Cottage features a large shop window with glazing bars, though this window is not original. Forge Cottage and Street Cottage form a group with several other nearby properties: Church View, Leo Cottage, The Risings, No 4 Hill Cottages, Horninglow Cottage, Hill Cottage, Street House, and Chapel Cottage.

Local climate

Forge Cottage Street Cottage 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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