Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Arun local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Forge Cottage

WRENN ID
unlit-floor-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Arun
Constituency
Worthing West MP: Dr Beccy Cooper (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Forge Cottage, the Street, East Preston
OS grid reference
TQ 068 026
Coordinates
50.81321, -0.48492
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Forge Cottage is an 18th-century building that stands two storeys high and features two windows. The exterior is faced with flints, complemented by red brick dressings and quoins. It has a half-hipped tiled roof and is fitted with casement windows.

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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