Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-roof-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Upper Street, Tilmanstone, CT14 0JQ
- OS grid reference
- TR 301 512
- Coordinates
- 51.21434, 1.29459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It is timber-framed with exposed timbers and plaster infill, built upon a red brick and flint underbuild. The roof is thatched and hipped to the left, with stacks centrally located to the left and at the right end. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars, and two metal casements. The ground floor has two wooden casements, and a panelled door set within a thatched and trellised porch.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 7 transactions since 2000
- 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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