The Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Dartford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1981. House.
The Forge House
- WRENN ID
- high-lantern-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartford
- Constituency
- Dartford MP: Jim Dickson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Forge House, Green Street Green Road, Darenth
- OS grid reference
- TQ 585 707
- Coordinates
- 51.41341, 0.27816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge House is a late 18th-century building that stands two storeys high with attics. It is constructed of red brick and features a mansarded tiled roof, which is topped with a large chimney stack and two hipped dormers. The façade has six window openings, consisting of three sash windows and three blank spaces. On the left side, there is a doorcase that includes a six-fielded panelled door, which is sheltered by a flat wooden weather hood. To the right, there is a shop front.
Local climate
The 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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