The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1973. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- lost-nave-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Forge, Teston Road, Offham, ME19 5NJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 657 572
- Coordinates
- 51.2903, 0.37585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a 17th-century cottage featuring exposed timber-framing with thin scantling and painted brick infilling. It has a half-hipped roof covered in plain tiles, complete with gablets and a central brick chimney stack. The building stands two storeys tall and has an irregular arrangement of windows, with two on the first floor and three on the ground floor, all of which are 20th-century wooden casements. To the right, there is a boarded door that has a pentice hood above it.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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