Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-panel-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Padbrook Lane, Preston
- OS grid reference
- TR 258 606
- Coordinates
- 51.2999, 1.23857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century and was extended in 1712. It is constructed of red brick with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys and a basement, featuring a very high plinth, a cogged plat band, and a hipped roof with gablets and a stack at the rear. There is one glazing bar sash window on each floor, and an outshot to the right. The centre of the cottage has a projecting kneelered gabled wing that is one storey and has an attic. This wing features a segmental wooden casement window, a glazing bar sash window, and a half-glazed door on the right side with a flat hood above. A date stone in the gable end reads "W G 1712."
Local climate
Forge 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 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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