Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1986. A C17, C18 House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-bastion-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Selling Street
- OS grid reference
- TR 039 564
- Coordinates
- 51.2711, 0.92292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with cladding added in the 18th century. It features a timber frame covered with painted brick and has a plain tiled roof. The building has an L-shaped plan and stands one storey high with an attic, resting on a high moulded plinth supported by four raking brick buttresses. The hipped roof has a heavy exposed and distorted wall plate. There is a central stack and three hipped dormers. The front includes three segmental headed wooden casements and a rib and stud door to the left. Additionally, there is a four-panel door in a segmental headed surround facing the road. The rear wing displays some exposed framing.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
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