Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1952. A 18th Century Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-soffit-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 18th Century
- Address
- Forge Cottage, the Street, Plaxtol, TN15 0QE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 602 535
- Coordinates
- 51.25849, 0.2959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a 18th-century cottage that was originally part of a pair. The ground floor is made of coursed, dressed stone, while the first floor is weatherboarded. It features a coved cornice beneath a plain tiled roof, which has two hipped dormers and end stacks. The gables are tile-hung. The building has two storeys and an attic, with two windows that have diamond lattice casements. There are two central boarded and ribbed doors, each topped with a single flat hood supported by three brackets.
Local climate
Forge Cottage 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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