Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Arun local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1975. A Early Modern Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-wattle-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Arun
- Constituency
- Bognor Regis and Littlehampton MP: Alison Griffiths (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Forge Cottage, 166, Lyminster Road, Littlehampton, BN17 7PS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 026 041
- Coordinates
- 50.82807, -0.54425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is an early 18th-century thatched cottage located on the east side of Lyminster Road. The building is constructed of flint with brick dressings and quoins. It has two storeys and originally two windows, with a single-window catslide extension to the north. The ground floor windows have cambered arches, and the first floor retains original casement windows. A modern brick porch with a hipped tiled gable has been added. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace, incorporating a more modern chimney.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 3 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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