Forge Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. House row. 3 related planning applications.
Forge Cottages
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-quartz-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1984
- Type
- House row
- Address
- Forge Cottages, 1, 2 and 3, the Green, Bearsted, ME14 4DU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 801 559
- Coordinates
- 51.27387, 0.58134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottages comprise a house, now divided into three separate dwellings, dating to the 17th century. The building is timber-framed. The front elevation is pebble-dashed, with applied timber studs on the first floor. The left gable end is brick on the ground floor and tile-hung on the first floor, with the gable above partially pebble-dashed. Exposed arch-braced tie-beams and queen struts to the collar, along with some later decorative bracing, are visible. The roof is covered in plain tiles, with a hipped end on the right. Stacks are located off-centre towards the right, and further stacks are at the rear, behind the dormers. The roof includes two large gabled eaves dormers, one at the right end and one towards the left. The windows are 20th-century casements, and the entrances feature three 20th-century half-glazed doors: one towards the left end, one off-centre towards the right, and one at the right end. The first floor of number 3 and the right section of number 2 are jettied over a 20th-century stone ground floor wall.
Local climate
Forge Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 5 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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