Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1973. House.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-latch-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge House, 17, High Street, Lydd, TN29 9AF
- OS grid reference
- TR 041 208
- Coordinates
- 50.95108, 0.90523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is an early to mid 19th century building located on the southeast side of High Street. It is two storeys tall and has a stuccoed exterior with a tiled roof. The front features two sash windows that have verticals only. There is a central doorcase that includes a moulded architrave, a pediment, and brackets, leading to a four-panelled door. Forge House is part of a group with Nos 7 to 17 (odd).
Local climate
Forge House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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