Forge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Forge Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tenth-spandrel-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Farmhouse, Staple Street, Hernhill, ME13 9UD
- OS grid reference
- TR 059 601
- Coordinates
- 51.30309, 0.95335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Farmhouse is an 18th-century house constructed of red and blue chequered brick, topped with a plain tiled roof. It has two storeys and a garret, set on a rendered plinth that features a plat band. There are chimney stacks located to the left and at the right end of the building. A hipped rear wing has a gablet that stands out over the ridge. The first floor has two wooden casements, and there are two more on the ground floor, all with segmental heads. The central entrance features a boarded door with a rendered surround.
Local climate
Forge Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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