Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. A C18 House. 4 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-basalt-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge Cottage, Church Street, North Moreton, OX11 9AX
- OS grid reference
- SU 561 895
- Coordinates
- 51.60215, -1.19123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an 18th-century house located on Church Street in North Moreton. It is constructed from painted limestone rubble with brick dressings and features a thatched half-hipped roof with a central brick ridge stack. The cottage is a single storey with an attic and has a two-window range. At the rear, there is a plank door, while the front displays two 2-light casements. Additionally, there is a horizontal sliding sash window on the right gable end. The interior has not been inspected. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Forge Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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