The Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1985. Cottage.
The Forge House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-nave-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Forge House, Forge Lane, West Peckham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 644 527
- Coordinates
- 51.25038, 0.35536
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Forge House is an 18th-century cottage located on the north side of Forge Lane in West Peckham. The building features a red brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor, topped with a plain tiled roof that has a catslide at the rear. It stands two storeys high and has two windows with casement frames. The entrance is marked by a central boarded door, which is sheltered by a tiled hood. There is a lean-to addition on the left side of the cottage.
Local climate
The Forge House 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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