Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1951. House. 3 related planning applications.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- pale-bailey-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge House, 37, Hart Street, Henley-On-Thames, RG9 2AR
- OS grid reference
- SU 762 826
- Coordinates
- 51.53784, -0.90255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is a 18th century building located on the north side of Hart Street. It features a stucco facade with some exposed timber framing on the eastern side wall. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with old tiles, positioned slightly advanced from the roof of No 55. The building has two storeys and four bays. The ground floor includes a notable 19th century shop front with a wide, overhanging cornice. There is a two-storey canted bay window to the east and a carriageway arch at the eastern end. The first floor has two additional windows, all of which are sash windows, most featuring glazing bars.
Forge House is part of a group that includes Nos 5 to 39 (odd), the Drinking Fountain, the Parish Church of St Mary, and the raised pavement at the east end of Hart Street, along with Nos 2 to 8 (even) and Nos 14 to 36 (even), including Adam House and Nos 40, 44 (including gates and piers), 48, No 50, The Old School House, and the Rectory Garden Wall opposite.
Local climate
Forge House 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- 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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