Forge Cottage and Pearl Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Cottage.
Forge Cottage and Pearl Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-bastion-linden
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage and Pearl Cottage, 76 and 78, the Street, Ash
- OS grid reference
- TR 288 584
- Coordinates
- 51.27878, 1.28038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage and Pearl Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the early 18th century. They are constructed of red brick and have a plain tiled roof. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic, set on a plinth. The roof features a brick eaves cornice and a segmental headed kneelered parapet gable on the left. There are three gabled dormers and four stacks located at the rear.
The front has a regular arrangement of windows, including three glazing bar sash windows and two 20th-century metal casements on the first floor, and two glazing bar sashes along with one metal casement on the ground floor, all with segmental heads. The left side has a door with six raised and fielded panels, while the right side has a boarded door; both doors are topped with flat hoods supported by brackets. At the rear, there is a large catslide outshot with substantial free-standing stacks. The cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
Forge Cottage and Pearl 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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