Old Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Forge and cottage.
Old Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-timber-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Forge and cottage
- Address
- Old Forge Cottage, Rye Road, Hawkhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 776 299
- Coordinates
- 51.04105, 0.53207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Forge Cottage is a forge and cottage dated 1874, designed by architect Richard Norman Shaw for William Cotterill of Tongswood. The building features tile hanging on the first floor and red brick on the ground floor, with a weather-boarded rear wing. It has a plain tiled roof and stands two storeys high, with a jetty supported by heavy brackets. The roof is tall and steeply pitched, hipped to the left and half-hipped to the right, topped with a tall moulded stack on the left. On the first floor, there are two 4-light wooden casements, while the ground floor has large mullioned windows arranged around the left-hand corner. To the right, there is a boarded door, and to the left, a half-glazed door. The rear weather-boarded range is the forge building, which is now incorporated into the cottage.
Local climate
Old 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 greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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