Forge Gate Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1985. A C16 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Gate Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- idle-steel-birch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Forge Gate Farmhouse, Maidstone Road, East Peckham, ME18 5JF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 655 524
- Coordinates
- 51.24759, 0.37073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Gate Farmhouse is a 16th-century Wealden hall house. The ground floor is built of red brick, while the first floor is tile-hung, with some ragstone walling visible on the west side. The roof is plain tiled, featuring a returned gable on the left and a hipped section on the right, with a ridge stack. The house has two storeys and an irregular three-window facade, with 19th-century lattice casements. There is a boarded door located to the left of center and a later wing at the rear. Inside, there is a 16th-century fireplace with a chamfered bressummer and salthole, and possible 16th-century panelling with an arched doorway, which may have originated from a buttery or pantry. The roof structure includes a crown post and two king-posts.
Local climate
Forge Gate Farmhouse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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 1996
- 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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