Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1986. House.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-column-heath
- 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, Badlesmere
- OS grid reference
- TR 009 542
- Coordinates
- 51.25182, 0.87757
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house that dates back to the 16th century, with cladding added in the 18th century. It features a timber frame covered with red brick, although the frame is exposed on the right side with red brick infill. The roof is plain tiled and hipped, with stacks located on the left side and projecting at the right end. The building has three wooden casement windows on each floor, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads. There is a panelled door located to the centre left, which is topped with a half-hipped roof. At the rear, there is a catslide outshot.
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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