Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-brass-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, the Street, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst, TN17 2JE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 793 375
- Coordinates
- 51.10902, 0.56066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was originally part of the Old King's Head building. It is timber-framed and was clad in red and blue brick on the ground floor and tile-hung on the first floor. Two timber uprights, likely not wall posts, are visible on either side of the ground floor. The roof is tiled, with a brick stack on a rear wing, and incorporates two hipped dormers. The cottage is one and a half storeys high, with a two-window front featuring 19th-century casement windows. A central boarded and ribbed door provides entry. The building possesses group value from this context.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- 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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