Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1986. House.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-rotunda-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge House, Throwley
- OS grid reference
- TQ 988 542
- Coordinates
- 51.25279, 0.84797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is a 17th-century house that features a timber frame, which is clad with painted brick and pebbledash, topped with a plain tiled roof. The building has two storeys with a hipped roof that slopes to the right. There are chimney stacks located at the left end and a projecting stack at the right end. Each floor has two sash windows, and there is a half-glazed door located to the centre right, which is accessed through a 20th-century porch. To the left, there is an outshot that contains one glazing bar sash window. At the rear, there is an integral forge housing within a catslide outshot. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Forge House 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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- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
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