Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1986. Cottage.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-tracery-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, 30, the Street, Newnham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 955 576
- Coordinates
- 51.28487, 0.80243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a house that was originally two cottages, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a plain tiled roof. The building stands two storeys high on a plinth and has a plat band made of red and grey chequered brick. The roof is hipped with a central chimney stack. The windows are arranged regularly, with five wooden casements on the first floor and four on the ground floor, both having segmental heads. There is a boarded door to the right, which is topped by a flat hood.
Local climate
Forge Cottage 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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