Forge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 May 1983. Cottage.
Forge Cottage
- WRENN ID
- strange-cupola-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 May 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge Cottage, the Street, Slaugham
- OS grid reference
- TQ 249 259
- Coordinates
- 51.01935, -0.21957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge Cottage is a late 16th century timber-framed building that has been refaced with red brick on the ground floor and is hung with fishscale tiles above. It features a tiled roof and casement windows, along with a modern porch. The building stands two storeys high and has two windows. Adjoining to the south is the Forge, which has been rebuilt and is now entirely modern, previously part of the Old Smithy Post Office and General Stores.
Local climate
Forge Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 11 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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