Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. A Georgian House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- salt-alcove-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- House, shop
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Forge House, the Broadway, Lamberhurst, TN3 8DA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 676 362
- Coordinates
- 51.101, 0.39245
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is a house and shop dating from the 18th century. The ground floor and first floor are made of painted brick, featuring applied framing and roughcast infill, while the return elevations are tile hung. The roof is plain tiled, with two storeys and an attic. The roof is half-hipped to the right and has a stack at the left end, along with a flat-roofed dormer. On the first floor, there are two three-light wooden casements, and on the ground floor to the left, there is a central boarded door and a sashed shop bay to the right, which includes a half-glazed door.
Local climate
Forge House 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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