Forstal Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House.
Forstal Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-keystone-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forstal Cottage, Alkham Valley Road
- OS grid reference
- TR 256 423
- Coordinates
- 51.13567, 1.22356
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forstal Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century and late 18th century. It is constructed of flint and extended with red brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys on flint plinths, featuring a hipped roof and a stack located to the centre left. On the first floor, there are three wooden casements and a horizontally sliding glazing bar sash to the centre right. The ground floor includes one wooden casement and three segmentally headed glazing bar sashes, with two roundels on either side of a central plank and stud door. The left two bays are part of the original building, which was extended around 1780. Inside, there are light-framed partitions and an inglenook fireplace to the left. In the 17th century and early 18th century, it served as an ale house known as the Fox and Goose.
Local climate
Forstal Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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