Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- deep-gargoyle-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, 1, 2 and 3, Malt House Lane, Dorchester, OX10 7LG
- OS grid reference
- SU 577 942
- Coordinates
- 51.6445, -1.16664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of three cottages, dating from the 17th century, is located on the north side of Malt House Lane in Dorchester. The cottages are of timber frame construction, with rendered walls and a thatched roof featuring brick ridge stacks. They have single- or two-unit plans, and are one storey high with attics. Nos. 1 and 2, the right and centre cottages, feature plank doors and single-bay fronts. No. 3 has two leaded casement windows on both the ground and first floors, along with a pair of shutters with fielded panels. Two of the four upper windows are dormers. The right gable wall has been rebuilt in brick. The roof is half-hipped to the left and contains two stacks. The interiors have not been inspected.
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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