The Forge Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. Restaurant. 1 related planning application.
The Forge Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- rooted-wattle-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Forge Restaurant, the Street, Plaxtol, TN15 0QE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 602 535
- Coordinates
- 51.25861, 0.29564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge Restaurant, formerly known as Old Forge House, is a late 16th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a restaurant. It features a 19th-century wing on the left, which was previously the village forge. The building is constructed of red and grey brick, with an underbuilt ground floor and a tile-hung first floor. It has a plain tiled roof with an end stack to the east and a central stack off-ridge at the front.
The structure is two storeys high and has a three-window front with modern diamond lattice casements. To the right, there is a boarded and ribbed door topped with an 18th-century flat hood supported by brackets. A lean-to extension is also present on the right side. The 19th-century wing on the left projects to the south and is made of painted brick, featuring a plain tiled roof with a catslide to the west. This wing is also two storeys tall and has one window at the south end, with diamond lattice casements. The entrance and a large open bay are located to the right on the east return side, with weatherboarding above the bay.
Inside, there are two original forges adjacent to the 19th-century wing. One of the fireplaces features a stop-chamfered bressumer with a salthole. Additionally, there is a cobbled pavement in front of the left-hand part of the house.
Local climate
The Forge Restaurant receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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