The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. Forge. 1 related planning application.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- blind-rubblework-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- Forge
- Address
- The Old Forge, Crantock, TR8 5RE
- OS grid reference
- SW 790 604
- Coordinates
- 50.40223, -5.11125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a building that has been converted into a workshop. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and has undergone few alterations since its construction. The structure is made of slatestone rubble and features a bitumenised slate roof with gable ends. It has an axial stack with a brick chimney.
The layout consists of a two-room plan, with the forge located on the left side, heated by the axial stack, and a room on the right that has a cart entrance at the front. Attached to the front left is a shoeing room, which has doors on both sides and a rear door leading into the forge.
The exterior is single-storey. The main range includes double doors for cart entry on the right and a two-light window at the right gable end. The shoeing room has a plank door on the inner side and a half-glazed door on the outer side, along with a two-light, twelve-pane window at the front gable end. There is a tie-ring on the inner side. The left end of the main range features a two-light, eight-pane window. The forge is built into the bank at the rear, with a twelve-pane light to the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- 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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