Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1986. Cottage.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-outpost-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Angley Road, Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 778 370
- Coordinates
- 51.10489, 0.53967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with a red brick ground floor and a weather-boarded first floor. The roof is plain tiled, half-hipped, and has two spans, with a large brick chimney stack on the left, a smaller brick stack on the right at the front, and a large stack at the rear on the right. The cottage is two storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows, with one window on both floors that are casements. There is a central boarded door to the right of the ground floor window, which is topped by a flat hood supported on brackets. At the rear, there is a brick lean-to extension.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% 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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