Fairview Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1976. House.
Fairview Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-pinnacle-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fairview Forge Cottage, Drainless Road, Woodnesborough
- OS grid reference
- TR 299 565
- Coordinates
- 51.26136, 1.29432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fairview Forge Cottage is a pair of houses dated 1750, located on the north side of Drainless Road in Woodnesborough. The building is two storeys high and features a kneelered gable on the right side, with stacks on both the left and right. On the first floor, there are three wooden casements and three cross windows, while the ground floor has two wooden casements and two cross windows, all adorned with flying cornices. The entrances are marked by rib and stud doors set in gabled porches on either side. A central date stone is inscribed with "E H" and has a large heart-shaped stone below it. At the rear, there is a pantiled catslide outshot from 1750.
Local climate
Fairview Forge Cottage 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 greater than that of 67% 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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