Forge Cottage and the Old Forge Adjacent is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Forge Cottage and the Old Forge Adjacent
- WRENN ID
- pale-postern-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage and the Old Forge Adjacent, Lynsted Street, Lynsted with Kingsdown, ME9 0RH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 942 608
- Coordinates
- 51.31317, 0.7864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage and the adjacent Old Forge are a house dating from the 18th century. The ground floor is painted brick, with weatherboard cladding on the first floor, and a plain tiled roof. The building has a lobby entry plan and two storeys, with a basement expressed as a plinth. The roof steps down on the left end bay, which is a later addition, and there is a stack in the centre-right. The first floor has four two-light wooden casement windows, with a small stair light in the centre-right. The ground floor has three three-light casement windows and a central half-glazed door leading up four steps. Attached to the right is the Old Forge, now used as a garage; it is built of painted brick with a plain tiled hipped roof and a stack to the rear. It has two wooden casement windows and garage doors at the right end.
Local climate
Forge Cottage and the Old Forge Adjacent 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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