Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. House.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- weathered-corner-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge House, Buckhurst Road, Frittenden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 815 412
- Coordinates
- 51.14137, 0.59405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is a house dating from around 1700, located on the north side of Buckhurst Road in Frittenden. The exterior features red and blue brick, with rendered return elevations, tile-hung gables, and a weatherboarded rear wing. The house is two storeys high, built on a plinth with low buttresses at the corners. It has a three-course plant band that settles at both the left and right ends, and a half-hipped roof. There is a stack at the left end and a large projecting double offset stack in an irregular band at the right end.
On the front, there are two three-light wooden casement windows on each floor, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads and being offset from those above. There are also blocked segmentally headed doorways to the left and right of the centre. The current entry is through a half-glazed door located in the right return, which is sheltered by a glazed and raking 20th-century porch. The house features gabled wings at the rear.
Local climate
Forge House 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
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