The Forge and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1989. A C18 Cottage, barn. 3 related planning applications.

The Forge and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
scarred-gable-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Oxfordshire
Constituency
Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1989
Type
Cottage, barn
Address
The Forge and Attached Barn, Church Street, Idbury, OX7 6RU
OS grid reference
SP 235 199
Coordinates
51.87778, -1.65935
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Forge and attached barn are an early 18th-century cottage with later additions and alterations. The cottage is constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble, with a slate roof. It is two storeys high, and originally had a two-window front. It features three-light chamfered mullion windows, with dripstones over the ground-floor windows. A boarded door is located on the far left. An integral end stack has been rebuilt in the 20th century, and a prominent ridge stack, also with 20th-century reconstruction, sits to the right of centre. A late 20th-century addition to the right connects the cottage to a low, formerly detached outbuilding. This addition has a half-glazed boarded door to the left and a three-light 20th-century casement with a wood lintel to the right.

To the left of the cottage is a regularly coursed rubblestone barn, linked to the cottage by a low range with a pantile roof and two 20th-century casements. The barn is L-shaped, with a corrugated iron roof, various infilled openings, and 20th-century casements to the gable end facing the road.

Inside the barn, the range flanking the road features a raised cruck truss, likely dating from the 15th or 16th century. The range at right angles to the road has an 18th-century collar truss roof in three bays, with double butt-purlins.

Local climate

The Forge and Attached Barn receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
  • 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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