Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1975. A C16 Cottage.
Old Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fading-pier-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 January 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage, Vicarage Hill, Westerham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 448 540
- Coordinates
- 51.26718, 0.07472
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge Cottage is a restored building that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. It is located on Vicarage Hill in Westerham, with its main front facing east and positioned at right angles to the road. The cottage has two storeys and features four windows. It has a tiled roof with a gabled bay on the right, which may be a reproduction. The visible timber framing includes plaster filling in the gabled bay and on the ground floor of the rest of the building, with tile hanging above. There is a stout plinth at the base. The first floor has old iron casements with new leading, while the ground floor and gabled bay have new casements, with the ground floor featuring small replaced oriel windows. A new tiled porch has been added, and there is a one-storey kitchen wing on the left, also with a tiled roof.
Local climate
Old Forge Cottage receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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