The Old Forge is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. Shop.
The Old Forge
- WRENN ID
- upper-terrace-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- The Old Forge, 273a, High Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 022 788
- Coordinates
- 50.60925, -1.96948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Forge is a two-storey building located on the south side of High Street, part of the same terrace as No 273. It is constructed with Purbeck Stone walls and roof and currently functions as a shop. The ground floor features a modern bow-fronted shop window with a central door. On the first floor, there are three double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. To the west, there is a modern attached stone-built garage.
Local climate
The Old Forge receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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