Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-doorway-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Forge House, the Barton, Corston, BA2 9AJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 694 654
- Coordinates
- 51.38721, -2.44051
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is a cottage that was formerly part of a smithy, dating from the mid to late 17th century. It is constructed of rubble with a pantiled roof featuring coped raised verges. The building has two storeys and attics. On the ground floor, there is a single three-light window, and on the first floor, there are two three-light windows, all with ovolo moulded mullions and surrounds, and each is topped with a dripmould. To the right, there is a 20th-century door. The wing on the right has 20th-century windows and a door.
Local climate
Forge House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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