Smithy Building Adjoining No 38 The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. Smithy building.
Smithy Building Adjoining No 38 The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- quartered-parapet-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Smithy building
- Address
- Smithy Building Adjoining No 38 The Old Forge, TN14 7TD
- OS grid reference
- TQ 518 618
- Coordinates
- 51.33516, 0.17797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Smithy building adjoining No 38, known as The Old Forge, is a timber-framed structure dating from the 16th or 17th century. It features a tiled roof with a gable end facing the road and a projecting chimney stack at the corner. The building has exposed timber framing with painted brick filling, except for the right side of the first floor, which is tile hung. There are various 19th-century casement windows. To the right, there are weather-boarded smithy buildings that also have tiled roofs and extend to the rear.
Local climate
Smithy Building Adjoining No 38 The Old Forge receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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