The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1963. House.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- narrow-threshold-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1963
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Forge, Paper Mill Lane, South Moreton
- OS grid reference
- SU 561 882
- Coordinates
- 51.59005, -1.19061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a house dating from the mid-17th century, located on Paper Mill Lane in South Moreton. The building features a painted brick and flint base with large timber framing and rendered infill, topped by a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the left. It has a two-unit plan and is a two-storey, two-bay range positioned at right angles to the street. A 20th-century plank door is situated to the right, with two 2-light casements on the ground floor. On the first floor to the right, there is a 2-light wooden casement. The left side of the building facing the road includes a 2-light wooden casement in the centre of the ground floor, a jettied first floor, and a 2-light wooden casement in the centre of the first floor. The gable end features a queen-post roof truss with a single-light casement. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Forge 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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