The Forge is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
The Forge
- WRENN ID
- tenth-attic-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Forge, 24, High Street, Burford, OX18 4RR
- OS grid reference
- SP 251 123
- Coordinates
- 51.80939, -1.6364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage, originally incorporating a smithy. It was fronted and remodelled in the mid-19th century. The exterior is colourwashed rubble with a Cotswold stone roof and a brick chimney on the left side, with ashlar stonework on the right. The cottage has two storeys and an attic, with a central dormer window. The first floor has two 20th-century sash windows with a single vertical glazing bar. The ground floor has a segment-headed window, and two segment-headed stable doors.
Local climate
The Forge receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 6 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings